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Lincoln was born two hundred years ago. Happy birthday Abe! But why are we in the 21st century still obsessed with this 19th-century man? We find Abe everywhere from advertising to political punditry. What does this popular Abe have to do with the historical Abe? 21^st-Century Abe has six months to tackle these questions

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After much nailbiting and prodding, we finally launched the new books blog at the Post. Yes, ladies and gentleman, I’m one of the editors of the Afterword (I’m in charge of the blog’s twitter feed, follow us @npbooks).

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1) When I’m too lazy to post I push things to my Google Reader plugin in the sidebar. There’s usually lots of fun things there. I’ll highlight this hilarious ‘How to be cool’ list from The Barstool Romantic.

2) The lovely ladies at Good Egg have been hard at work and have a new website! Drop by and say a virtual hi.

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. Jeremy handles the morning shift so I never see him. Reading his blog makes me feel like we still work together.

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Founder Serah-Marie McMahon was originally based out of Montreal but she lives in Toronto now. Well, the city’s a little bit more fun because of it. You can buy the magazine on their site or at your fine independent bookstore.

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