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Is Google Making Us Stoopid?

By Ann Kroeker / June 13, 2008

The cover article for the current issue of Atlantic magazine (July/August) is entitled “Is Google Making Us Stoopid?” Hm. Is it?Author Nicholas Carr writes:

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Books offer a Rehearsal for Life

By Ann Kroeker / April 29, 2008

At the Festival of Faith & Writing, children’s book author (twice awarded the Newbery Medal) Katherine Paterson sat with her

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Yann Martel on Life of Pi, Interpretation, Stillness, and Art

By Ann Kroeker / April 25, 2008

A couple of years ago, urged by a friend, I read Life of Pi, by Yann Martel. It left me

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The Simplicity of Reading

By Ann Kroeker / March 7, 2008

I recently came across a passage in a book called Graceful Simplicity. In a chapter entitled “The Politics of Simplicity,” in a

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