by | Aug 6, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Radio France Internationale Slap! Pow! Bam! … VRAOUM! by Laura Angela Bagnetto Article published on the 2009-08-02 Latest update 2009-08-03 17:01 TU Gilles Barbier, The Hospice, 2002 La Maison Rouge Slap! Pow! Bam! Anyone who’s read those words knows...
by | Aug 4, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Literary News, Los Angeles
from FishbowlLA @ MediaBistro Emmy Format Shift Angers Writers The Emmy awards announced Thursday plans for a change in the format of the ceremony. Eight of the 28 Emmy categories will be pre-taped, in order to shave minutes off the lengthy program time. Two of the...
by | Aug 3, 2009 | Literary News
from The Guardian UK UK’s most prolific library book borrower by Severin Carrell A 91-year-old woman from Stranraer in south-west Scotland is believed to be Britain’s most prolific library book reader after staff at her local library realised she is on the...
by | Aug 2, 2009 | Literary News
from Slate (lifted from Michelle Gagnon, author of the great book BONEYARD) The Book Industry’s Best-Seller ListsWhat are they, and why do they matter so much? By Eliza TruittPosted Thursday, Sept. 3, 1998, at 3:30 AM ET These days, it seems as if half the books...
by | Jul 29, 2009 | Literary News
I work at a used and rare bookstore, and I buy books from people everyday. These are the personal, funny, heartbreaking and weird things I find in those books. Today’s post comes from author Jan Markley. From Jan: I have a friend who loans me books and there are...
by | Jul 26, 2009 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Guardian UK The power of reading Morrison on André Kertész’s photographic celebration of the joy of the written word by Blake Morrison Boy reading newspaper, New York, 1944 Photograph: The Estate of André Kertész/Courtesy of Stephen Bulger Gallery One...
