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LaToya Jordan
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Japan’s libraries
Continuing with the library theme, from the most beautiful to what happens when libraries die, here are some images from earthquake-damaged libraries in Japan. (Link is translated by Google). (via The Book Bench)
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Notable New York, This Week 3/14-3/20
This week in New York, Jane Eyre readings at Housing Works Bookstore Café, Karen Russell and Wells Tower at the New York Public Library, celebrating the 40th anniversary of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Sex Worker…
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How Marriage Impacts Men’s Health
The Atlantic has two articles about longitudinal studies: the Harvard Study of Adult Development, begun in 1937, which followed the lives of Harvard sophomore men for over 70 years to study their physical and mental health and The Longevity Project,…
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The Rise of the Grief Memoir
“Grief, all of a sudden, is hot. Books by authors who have lost a loved one are becoming so common they’re now a classifiable snowflake in the unending blizzard of memoirs” —The Millions on grief memoirs and what makes them…
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Print a Book While You Wait
“McNally Jackson in New York is one of a growing number of bookstores that can print on demand. The store has recently installed an Espresso Book Machine, a printer that can produce a high-quality paperback in just a few minutes.…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Does fiction tell the true story of childbirth? Online reading plagued by “Bye-bye belly fat” ads. Take a tour through the writing sheds of famous authors. (via) Fahrenheit 451 updated for 2011. (via)
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
It’s Sunday. Sometimes you have to pull yourself away from the news. See what Rumpus Books has been up to this past week.
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Notable New York, This Week 3/07-3/13
This week in New York, the 2011 Oscar nominated shorts at BAM; “Let It End Like This,” an exhibition on obituaries; Bradford Morrow talks about The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death; Page Meets Stage at the Bowery Poetry Club; PUNCH!…
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Women Writers in New York: Become a Mentor
Girls Write Now, the awesome organization that I mentor with, is looking for professional women writers to become mentors to a talented group of high school girls for the 2011-2012 program year. I’ve written about my experience as a mentor…
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No More Booty
First The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and now the Bible? “…‘booty,’ a word that sets off snickers in Sunday school, will be replaced by the ‘spoils’ of war when the newest edition of the New American Bible, the English-language Catholic…
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Notable New York, This Week 2/28-3/06
This week in New York the 92nd Street Y focuses on “Literature and Revolution in the Middle East,” readings from Granta and Flatmancrooked, the Third Annual Chapbook Festival, Kevin Young reads from his new collection, and First Saturday at the…