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Interns Blog: The idea position for reading

Before this summer, I had never worked at a publishing firm or commuted into the city. I couldn’t predict much of what I would encounter. I did believe, however, that I would hate the commute. To my surprise, I haven’t.

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Hollandaise Sauce Made Easy - from a 17th-Century Kitchen

"I can’t make hollandaise sauce—it’s too hard." No single recipe epitomizes everything people love and fear about French cuisine more fully than hollandaise sauce. Not to worry. Hollandaise itself descends directly from one of the oldest and most celebrated recipes in the history of French cuisine and, in its original form, it is not nearly as intimidating as cooks now find it.

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• To all the American readers out there, Happy 4th of July! Have a great weekend, don't blow up anything important, and we'll have more updates on Monday. -Cambridge U.S.A. #
• Judea Pearl, author of legendary book Causality (new edition coming soon!) writes about the problem of AI in Forbes. #
• Happy Canada Day everyone! Here's an archive of posts by our Canadian sales rep, Pam Robinson.
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• Steve Sheppard, author of I Do Solemnly Swear: The Moral Obligations of Legal Officials, just kicked his own FindLaw column off with a bang - an analysis of the Supreme Court's decision on "judge-buying". #
• Happy Birthday, Shelf Awareness! The book industry newsletter is 4 years old today, but golly, they don't look a day over two! Their announcement >> #
• The Times Higher Education Supplement reviews The Cambridge Companion to Bob Dylan.

  Too restless, omnivorous and single-mindedly creative to sit in university classrooms, Dylan, as Shumway notes, has absorbed "the influence of virtually every sort of American popular music".

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• Foreign Policy posted its 8 Books Ahmadinejad Doesn't Want You to Read yesterday, and coming in at #1: Janet Afary's Sexual Politics in Modern Iran. Keep track of some of Afary's recent articles here >> #
• Charles Bamforth's predictions are coming true; but in the opposite direction. Good restaurants are adding good beer. Beer bars aren't exactly venturing towards good food. Eric Asimovin the New York Times >> #
• Martin Rubin reviews The Letters of Samuel Beckett in the Washington Times. #
• Gerald Mullaney and Wil Tirion just published the splendid Cambridge Double Star Atlas, and Astronomy.com posted their review today. And yes, the review is very nice. Thanks for the kind words, Michael! #
• On The Huffington Post, Carol Swain shares an excerpt from her book, The New White Nationalism in America. #
• "Mr. Sedaris, will you sign my Kindle?" E-readers may not spell the end of book signings just yet. On the NY Times, an article about ebook signings. What did David Sedaris write? "This bespells doom" #