Notable New York, This Week 8/22-8/28
This week in New York Amy Waldman reads from The Submission; a book party for Jennifer Close’s Girls in White Dresses; CALYX poetry reading at Bluestockings; a night of prose…
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LaToya Jordan
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Getting Boys to Read
How can we interest boys in reading when the majority of YA bestsellers are targeted to girls, who are more into books about “mean girls, gossip girls, frenemies and vampires”?…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…