10.13.2009
The Book is a Weapon (3)
By: Joshua Glenn | Categories: Spectacles

book-weapon

Artist: Broder, S.
Title: “Books are weapons in the war of ideas : books cannot be killed by fire”
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O. : Distributed by Division of Public Inquiry, O.W.I.,
Date: 1942.

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Third in an occasional series.

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About the author: Joshua Glenn

Joshua Glenn is a Boston, Mass.-based writer, editor, and cultural semiotics analyst. He's cofounder of HiLobrow (named by TIME one of the Best Blogs of 2010), Significant Objects, and Semionaut. He's been a columnist for the Boston Globe, the Observer (London), Feed.com, and the Idler; he's toiled as a magazine, website, and newspaper editor; and he's authored and edited Taking Things Seriously (2007) and The Idler's Glossary (2008). In the '90s he published the seminal intellectual/pop culture zine Hermenaut.

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1 Comment to “The Book is a Weapon (3)”

  1. Peggy says:
    October 13, 2009 at 10:13 am

    Got a centipede once with a book. I know that’s not what you mean, but, it was perfectly effective. RIP ‘pede.

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