Posted on February 17, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Library lets late fees fly for Hudson River pilot "FRESNO, Calif. – Hero pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is every librarian's hero, too. The US Airways pilot splash landed his jetliner in the Hudson River on Jan. 15, and everyone on board escaped safely. But left in the cargo hold was a book Sullenberger had checked [...]
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Posted on February 17, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
A couple of years ago I posted about the Big List of Literary Magazines. Well, according to a comment left on that post by Scott, who I’m guessing is the Content Editor at Every Writer’s Resource, home of the Big List, they’re giving the list a makeover. Check it out — it looks even more [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
News from BookBalloon: The March Reading Club Selection is Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Olive Kitteridge has been named a National Book Critics Circle finalist in fiction. Discussion begins March 4 in the Forum. Registration is free.
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Posted on February 15, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Literary agent Colleen Lindsay gave her Twitter followers a peek into her inbox full of queries this afternoon. (For those of you who don’t know about Twitter, check it out here. I’m emccullough if you’d like to follow me.) For the benefit of writers hoping to improve their pitch, Ms. Lindsay quickly went through 20 [...]
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Posted on February 14, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
The Art of M. S. Corley: Harry Potter Redesign "Redesigned The Harry Potter book covers to look like Penguin Classics." Via http://www.thebookdesignreview.com
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Posted on February 13, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Dan Brown and Jon Krakauer Cheer Up Doubleday – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat "Jon Krakauer's long-delayed Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman will be published in September with an initial run of 600,000 copies." And then there's also a Dan Brown thing. Songbirds migrate faster than thought – LiveScience- msnbc.com "Songbirds migrate faster than [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
New Dominion Bookshop will host a reading and book-signing by Karen M. Bence who will present selections from her book Midnight Revelations February 20, 2008 at 12:15 p.m. In Midnight Revelations, book one of the Dark Whispers series, Sara and her family are ecstatic when they move into a vintage farmhouse, but eerie events soon [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Two months with one stone, as it were. I didn’t read much in November — can’t remember why now. Holidays, maybe? November Inglorious: A Novel, Joanna Kavenna, pub. 2008, F **** Another little gem from the LibraryThing Early Reviewer program. The narrator’s mother dies, she walks off her job, she goes into debt — and [...]
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Posted on February 12, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
DailyLit: Big Read 'Wouldn’t it be fun if you, your friends, and folks all over the world could read the same story or book at the same time? We thought so, and that’s why we’re launching DailyLit’s Big Read. The idea is to get lots of people reading the same book on DailyLit. With lots [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Pumpkins and books go together like…two things you might think of in: October Two Marriages, Phillip Lopate, pub. 2008, F **** Two novellas, two marriages, two very different takes on the institution. I enjoyed this light but insightful book. Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story, Christina [...]
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Posted on February 9, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
The Book Design Review Books on books covers. Book covers of books on books. Covers of books on books' covers. And so on. The View From Graustark: The best Civil War novel ever? 'In 1955, when MacKinlay Kantor’s Andersonville first came out, one newspaper reviewer called it, “A great book, perhaps the greatest of all [...]
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Posted on February 8, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Blambot Comic Fonts and Lettering Comics grammar and tradition — via http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1115
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Posted on February 6, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Just a short announcement: I sent a short story today out to three markets. It felt good.
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Posted on February 6, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
New Dominion Bookshop will host a reading and book-signing by Peter Skinner who will present selections from his book The Bells of Moses Henry Thursday, February 19 at 5:30 PM The Bells of Moses Henry, Peter Skinner’s latest novel, chronicles the adventures of a seven-year-old mulatto boy named Willie Graves during the 1950s. Blamed for [...]
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Posted on February 5, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Chemical Shifts and Coupling Constants for Silicon-29: You Will Laugh Till You Weep | The Loom | Discover Magazine "The book costs $8,539. The reviews on Amazon are priceless." mulberrybookshop – Book terminology "To help you understand them better, here is a guide to some book-related terms…."
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