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Archive for the 'I on the News' Category
Thu, October 15th, 2009
Controversy! Is Something Rotten in the NBA?
Posted by: Ian
As you might know from reading 10 inches below this post (or, if for some reason you gets infos from somewhere else other than our little Likely Stories, you already know from anywhere else), the National Book Award nominations were announced yesterday. And while the NBAs are no stranger to odd picks, especially in the [...]
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Fri, September 18th, 2009
Weeklings: Best-Sellers Past, Present, & Future
Posted by: Keir
I know something happened this week–everybody was talking about it. Writing about it, even. Something, something . . . some guy published a book? Oh, yeah! Dan Brown thrilled the world by finally–finally–giving us The Lost Symbol. The New York Times, which really is getting the hang of this breaking-the-embargo thing, wrote, puzzlingly, that Brown [...]
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Fri, September 11th, 2009
Weeklings: Books by the Numbers
Posted by: Keir
It’s been so long since I’ve posted that I had to dust off the blog’s dashboard before I could start. And, somehow, my fingers got stuck inside the computer monitor, and it was hours before the IT department could come to my desk and set me free. Very embarrassing.
The real problem has been a combination of late-summer [...]
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Tue, September 1st, 2009
Is Alice Munro Stupid?
Posted by: Brad
Where were you when you heard that Canadian uber-fiction writer Alice Munro has withdrawn her latest collection of stories, Too Much Happiness, from consideration for the annual Giller Prize? (The Giller is the Canadian literary award that has more money attached to it than any other Canadian literary prize: $50,000, that is.) That Munro has [...]
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Fri, August 28th, 2009
Dominick Dunne, R.I.P.
Posted by: Kaite
Some reviewers and readers may find this hard to believe, but I will miss Dominick Dunne (”Dominick Dunne, Chronicler of Crime, Dies at 83,” by Enid Nemy, New York Times). He has always been a favored writer on my reading list. I would call him a guilty pleasure author except his writing and storytelling were [...]
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Thu, July 30th, 2009
“I’d say ‘throw the book at that kid’ - but he would just read it.”
Posted by: Keir
I hereby encourage The Daily Show and The Colbert Report to increase their coverage of publishing and library news, that I may have an excuse to watch them during the work day.
The Colbert Report
Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c
Nailed ‘Em - Library Crime
www.colbertnation.com
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Fri, July 17th, 2009
What I Haven’t Been Writing About
Posted by: Keir
I have been swamped–SWAMPED–the past few weeks, editing newsletters, mining data, writing reviews, and preparing for and attending Annual Conference. I say that not to complain but to account for my near-absence from both the blogosphere and the twitterdome. This absence pains me, because the news has been full of my kind of blogfodder. As I am an [...]
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Mon, June 22nd, 2009
Reading with Scissors
Posted by: Keir
The Chicago Tribune reports on a case of book-phobia that’s not all that far from ALA headquarters: Antioch, Illinois (”Some parents seek to ban ‘The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian’,” by Ruth Fuller). According to the story:
Some parents of incoming freshmen at Antioch High School want an assigned summer reading book pulled from [...]
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Mon, June 15th, 2009
Slam Poetry, Part 3: Inviting Slam Poetry to the White House
Posted by: Mark Eleveld
In their first post-election 60 Minutes interview, the President- and First Lady-elect said they’d like to open the White House up to the people. They mentioned poetry and jazz.
I knew that Michelle Obama had seen spoken word and poetry slam poets while in Chicago, so I called them. I reminded myself that their house, 1600 [...]
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Wed, June 10th, 2009
Slam Poetry, Part 2: The Rules (And a Close Encounter with the Voice of Darth Vader at the White House)
Posted by: Mark Eleveld
Here’s some video of poetry slam founder Marc Kelly Smith, who I wrote about yesterday. The first link (excuse the lighting) is a show I put together for the Society of Midland Authors April program in the beautiful Cliff Dwellers Club on Michigan Avenue. The room is all windows, high in the air, with a [...]
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