The Black Genre
I remember the joy I used to get as a little kid perusing the aisles of books of my local library in Chicago. I was a nine-year-old who read H.G. Wells, Edgar Allen Poe, and J.R.R. Tolkien. The latter of whom—I must admit—I found extremely challenging. But I was nine; can you blame me?
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Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Invisible Monsters opens with a chaotic scene: a house is on fire, Evie Cottrell stands screaming on the staircase, and Brandy Alexander lies bleeding from a gunshot wound, asking the narrator to tell her life story. What occurs after is a series of non-linear stories in which the reader slowly learns about the characters and the circumstances by which they’ve become what they are.
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Discovery Communications Files Suit with Amazon

Discovery Communications (parent company of the Discovery Channel) sued Amazon last Tuesday for infringing its patent on electronic book technology. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Delaware, Discovery Communications that the technology related to e-book security used by Amazon infringes on one or more of the claims on a patent that Discovery obtained in November 2007. General counsel of Discovery Joseph A. LaSala, Jr., said, “The Kindle and Kindle 2 are important and popular content delivery systems. We believe they infringe our intellectual property rights, and that we are entitled to fair compensation.” WNW will follow this case and report updates as they become available.

Discovery Communications Files Suit with Amazon

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