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... that in
Googled: The End of the World as We Know It
,
Ken Auletta
uses the story
The Purloined Letter
to describe the attitude of the traditional media executives toward
Google
?
... that
Miriam Roth
grew up in a
Hungarian
-speaking town, studied at a
German
-speaking university, and wrote best-sellers in
Hebrew
?
... that in the 1895 play
Trilby
, the role of
Svengali
was created by American actor
Wilton Lackaye
?
... that
Louisa Venable Kyle
wrote a children's book on
The Witch of Pungo
?
... that
Walter Arthur Berendsohn
, who successfully nominated
Nelly Sachs
and
Willy Brandt
for their respective
Nobel Prizes
, wrote
Die humanistische Front
, the seminal book on German exile literature?