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LaToya Jordan
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Pandora for Books?
BookLamp.org could be called the cousin of Pandora. This new website allows you to type in the name of a favorite book or author and then finds books with similar “DNA” to help you find new books. BookLamp is a…
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Was Times New Roman Plagiarized?
Although I prefer Garamond, Times New Roman is the font of choice for the rest of the world. Did you know that this classic font has a shady past? Stanley Morison, a typography consultant for The Times, is credited as…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/15-8/21
This week in New York the Franklin Park Reading Series on Missed Connections; Word for Word features the poets of Letras Latinas; a party for My Drunk Kitchen; Poetry from the Rooftops with Cedar Sigo, Rosanna Warren, and Dara Wier;…
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80-Foot Tower of Books
“The Tower of Babel,” is an 80-foot tower art installation of 30,000 books created by Argentinean artist Marta Minujín to celebrate Buenos Aires being the 2011 World Book Capital as named by UNESCO. The tower stood from May 7 to…
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“Bed Peace” with John Lennon & Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono is gifting YouTube viewers with a free viewing of Bed Peace, a documentary about her and John Lennon’s 1969 Bed-In in Montreal to promote world peace and protest the Vietnam War. The 70-minute film will be available on…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/08-8/14
This week in New York Airplane! at Bryant Park, Lev Grossman reads from The Magician King, Moth StorySLAM on business, The Center for Book Arts annual summer reading, authors Emma Forest and Jon Ronson at McNally Jackson, The Final Episode…
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Mark Twain Wanted to Scalp His Critics
Have you checked out Sunday Magazine? It’s writer David Friedman’s site with articles from The New York Times Sunday Magazine exactly 100 years ago from the date he posts. One of the articles for July 30, 1911, “When Mark Twain…
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Collecting Every Book Ever Published
One might call Brewster Kahle a master archivist. He’s the man behind the Internet Archive, a digital library that stores a copy of every web page posted since 1996. And now he’s set out on another ambitious project: to collect…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/01-8/07
This week in New York The Shrinks are Away hosted by Susan Shapiro, Word for Word Poetry at Bryant Park featuring Kundiman poets, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes at Riverside Park, a Super Freaky reading with Stacy Carlson and Alexander…
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Updating High School English
I’m married to a high school English teacher. I love hearing about his students’ reactions to books that I also read as a teen: Animal Farm, Brave New World, Macbeth, and more. But are some of these books, the classics,…
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Transgender Students at Women’s Colleges
“‘Women’s colleges are, in my opinion, attempting to figure out how to support trans men, but there are more barriers to trans women who would like to attend their institutions,’ [D. Chase James] Catalano, a trans male who has worked…