by | Mar 28, 2012 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
from Leesburg Today Six Schools Advance In Battle Of The Books It was a battle of book lovers Thursday morning, as Loudoun high school students competed in the 7th Annual Battle of the Books Semi-Finals. High school teams were broken into three divisions, with Potomac...
by | Mar 20, 2012 | Literary News, Projects
from Publisher’s Weekly Are Teens Embracing E-books? By Karen Springen A recent PubTrak survey from R.R. Bowker indicated that teens remain reluctant when it comes to e-books. Accustomed to social media, they find that electronic stories have “too many...
by | Mar 15, 2012 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
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by | Mar 13, 2012 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The New York Times After 244 Years, Encyclopaedia Britannica Stops the Presses By JULIE BOSMAN Ángel Franco/The New York Times After 244 years, the Encyclopaedia Britannica is going out of print. Those coolly authoritative, gold-lettered reference books that were...
by | Mar 8, 2012 | Literary News
from National Public Radio ‘Lifespan’: What Are The Limits Of Literary License? by TRAVIS LARCHUK When an author writes something that’s supposed to be a true story and readers discover he’s stretched the truth, things can get ugly fast. Recall...
by | Mar 3, 2012 | Literary News
from The Guardian UK Factual fiction: writing in an information age Imaginative writing now inhabits a multi-screeen world, and novels that don’t acknowledge this struggle to reflect our new era by Ewan Morrison – Friday 2 March 2012 08.45 EST A score of...
