by | Sep 18, 2011 | Literary News
from MediaBistro’s GalleyCat Heartbreaking Borders Photograph By Jason Boog on September 14, 2011 2:23 PM Reddit user Jessers25 took the photo embedded above at a Borders going out of business sale. In the photo, a Thomas Jefferson quote sat on a bare wall with...
by | Sep 16, 2011 | Literary News
from Shelf Awareness La Casa Azul Goes for the Green Aurora Anaya-Cerda, who founded La Casa Azul Bookstore online in 2008, has launched a campaign to raise $40,000 in 40 days to open a bricks-and-mortar store in East Harlem in New York City. A donor will match the...
by | Sep 15, 2011 | Literary News
from NPR Things We Say Today And Owe To Shakespeare by EYDER PERALTA A 20-year-old girl named Becky from London posted a picture of one of the pages of her Moleskine notebook on Tumblr. It has, as they say, gone viral and less than a week later is making waves across...
by | Sep 14, 2011 | Literary News
from Abe’s Books Rapper 50 Cent loses to author Chinua Achebe I love this story. Super tough rapper 50 Cent has just had his candy ass handed to him by 80-year-old Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe. It appears 50 Cent had not read Things Fall Apart, Achebe’s...
by | Sep 10, 2011 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News
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by | Sep 10, 2011 | Literary News
from Shelf Awareness Obituary Note: Michael Stern Hart Michael Stern Hart, founder and head of Project Gutenberg and considered by many to have invented the e-book, died on Tuesday. He was 64. According to Dr. Gregory B. Newby, Hart told this story of how he had the...
