Posted on January 24, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
There should be a special word — perhaps there already is — for books about the love of books, like Anne Fadiman’s Ex Libris. “Bibliobibliophilia” or something like that. The latest book in this line is Leave Me Alone I’m Reading by Maureen Corrigan, book reviewer for NPR. Corrigan weaves stories from her life as [...]
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Posted on January 23, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Blood Meridian is the fourth Cormac McCarthy book I have read since plunging into his work about a year ago. I started with Child of God and loved the style – so often described as “biblical”– and the Appalachian voices. I then launched into what I consider the best of the four, Suttree, whose eponymous [...]
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Posted on January 22, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Virginia Arts of the Book Center has posted their winter schedule: two introductory bookbinding classes, two intermediate letterpress classes.
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Posted on January 22, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
The second part of Zadie Smith’s Guardian essay is up. Warning: There are references to Kierkegaard. But you knew there would be, didn’t you? This part is about the responsibilities and failures of the reader-critic. Both the writer and the reader must undergo an ethical expansion – allow me to call it an expansion of [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
And speaking of festivals, the announcement of the photo festival reminded me to check the updated schedule for the Virginia Festival of the Book. Hmmm, now what have I got in my book bag? Not a whole lot. I’m mostly interested in craft-related discussions and there don’t seem to be many of those this year. [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
From The Hook: City announces Festival of the Photo We’ve already got a film festival and a book festival. And now, thanks to a partnership between the City and the National Geographic Society, we’re about to get the Festival of the Photo. In a Saturday release, City spokesman Ric Barrick says the Festival will take [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
This looks cool: BookTalk.org — the freethinker’s book discussion community. Forums for discussion of nonfiction, plus on-line reading groups. Current selections include The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins and The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond.
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Posted on January 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
You know the Bible 100%! Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses – you know it all! You are fantastic! Ultimate Bible Quiz Create MySpace Quizzes (The question on the great flood is messed [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Finalists for the 33rd Annual National Book Critics Circle Awards: Nonfiction: Patrick Cockburn, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq (Verso) Anne Fessler, The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades Before Roe V. Wade (Penguin Press) Michael Pollan, The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History [...]
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Posted on January 21, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
From the NYT — no reading or writing, just something to make your life easier — and maybe free up more time for reading and writing! For those who just can’t take it anymore, here is a master list of where you can take control: PHONE SOLICITATIONS To stop them, go to donotcall.gov. Or call [...]
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Posted on January 19, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Posted on January 19, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Includes articles on oil in Africa, a new installment of Art Spiegelman’s memoir, an essay by Walter Mosby, and this tasty looking piece on Spielbergization and Its Discontents. Oh, yeah — there’s some poetry and fiction, too. Pod people can find out more at Charlottesville Podcasting Network.
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Posted on January 19, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Posted on January 18, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
Looks like John Grisham will find himself back in the courtroom sooner than he might have hoped. The Hook has the story: One of Charlottesville’s longest legal dramas breathed new life when the Supreme Court of Virginia ruled 6-1 that an Albemarle Circuit Court judge erroneously dismissed Katharine Almy’s lawsuit against mega-selling author John Grisham [...]
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Posted on January 18, 2007 by Elizabeth McCullough
More on Ian McEwan’s brother from the NYT: The older brother discovered at 14 that he was adopted. Eight years later the woman who had raised him as an adoptive mother died. His adoptive father would tell him only that the family “got him out of a newspaper.” Unaware of each other, the two brothers [...]
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