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July 17, 2013 Subscribe · Forward John Grisham Was Banned From Guantanamo Bay Prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were recently denied access to John Grisham books, according to the Wall Street Journal.  Continue reading... 11 Books To Read This Summer According To Ralph Nader eBook Prices Are Still A Huge Problem For Libraries Will She Play 'Gone Girl'? 8 Most Evil First Names Bill Gates Names Summer Reading List Best New Books Out This Week 8 Reasons Straight Men Don't Want To Get Married JK Rowling Wrote A Book Under A Pseudonym! 8 Most Evil First Names JK Rowling Wrote A Book Under A Pseudonym! ALFRED W. MCCOY Surveillance Blowback The technology used is state of the art; the impulse, it turns out, is nothing new. For well over a century, what might be called "surveillance blowback" from America's wars has ensured the creation of an ever more massive and omnipresent internal security and surveillance apparatus. Continue reading... MADELINE WAHL How Reading Books Helped Me Deal with My Parents' Divorce My parents divorced during my last year of college. Though it didn't come as a surprise - they'd been arguing for as long as I could remember - it still came as a shock. Continue reading... ALEC GEWIRTZ Roth and Munro: When Authors Retire A writer's life cut short -- Keats, Marlowe, the Brontës -- haunts literary history, and the writer's fear of dying prematurely, before fulfilling his potential, once made for some of the West's finest writing. How fittingly modern, then, that writers nowadays could, in effect, live too long. Continue reading... HANNA RASKIN Yelp Help There's nothing inherently wrong with a forum in which non-professional diners can swap restaurant recommendations. But most online sites are jammed with reviews ranging from laughable to libelous. Here are five fundamentals every reviewer should know. Continue reading... MEG WAITE CLAYTON 6 Weeks in the English Lakes #5: At Opposite Ends of the Coffin Route Wordsworth and his brother were walking in the English Lakes in late 1799 with fellow poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge when they came upon the Dove Cottage in Grasmere. Although he lived there for less than a decade, many of the poems he is remembered for were written during those years. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003