Posted on November 30, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Author Carol Lemons will be at New Dominion Bookshop to conduct a children’s activity and to sign copies of her book Matisse and the Boy Who Loved to Draw Saturday, December 12 from 10 AM to 12:00 Noon Matisse and the Boy Who Loved to Draw tells the story of artist Henri Matisse in his [...]
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Posted on November 28, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Coming to New Dominion Bookshop: Marietta McCarty will discuss and sign copies of her book How Philosophy Can Save Your Life: 10 Ideas That Matter Most Thursday, December 10 at 5:30 PM “Where’s my book?” asked sheepish adults, confessing that they were reading Little Big Minds: Sharing Philosophy with Kids for their personal enjoyment even [...]
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Posted on November 26, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
About Brevity’s Blog « BREVITY’s Creative Nonfiction Blog "Information on contests, calls for submissions, creative nonfiction miscellany, and Brevity magazine news and updates." Glad to see this blog on creative nonfiction!
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Posted on November 21, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
New Jane Eyre Gets Hot-Right-Now Cast "Reader, she's in talks to marry him. Mia Wasikowska, about to hit our screens as Alice in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, is in talks to star with the ace Michael Fassbender in Jane Eyre, a new adaptation of the classic novel. For those of you who slept through [...]
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Posted on November 20, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Free, Rare, Early Shakespeare Digital Archive | Open Culture "Newly launched: The Shakespeare Quartos Archive is a new digital collection that features pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare’s plays. Here, for example, you will find rare early editions of Hamlet, including all 32 existing quarto copies of the play in one place. An online first." Yum. [...]
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Posted on November 19, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Coming to New Dominion Bookshop: Paul M. Gaston will present selections from his memoir Coming of Age in Utopia: The Odyssey of an Idea on Thursday, December 3 at 5:30 PM In this exquisitely wrought memoir of a committed life, historian and civil rights activist Paul Gaston reveals his deep roots in the unique utopian [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
My review of A Better Pencil by Dennis Baron is now up at the Internet Review of Books, with the teaser, “What’s better than a nice No. 2?” Ahem. Anyway. It was an interesting book and a good rejoinder to all the gripes about email, IM, Facebook, Twitter, etc., etc. destroying our language and the [...]
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Posted on November 17, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Book Review – 'What the Dog Saw – And Other Adventures,' by Malcolm Gladwell – Review – NYTimes.com "The themes of the collection are a good way to characterize Gladwell himself: a minor genius who unwittingly demonstrates the hazards of statistical reasoning and who occasionally blunders into spectacular failures." Heh.
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Posted on November 16, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
I had a fun assignment last Friday — recording Edgar Allan Poe at the Jefferson Society. I’ve been a Poe fan forever. Here’s the post and recording from Charlottesville Podcasting Network: Poet, wastrel, and former University of Virginia student Edgar Allan Poe presented a selection of his best known works to the Jefferson Literary and [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Find out more at their website: Contest #10 began on November 13, 2009. Its premise is DELICATE One or more characters have to handle an object, person, or situation that they consider “delicate” (whether it really is or not). How well these characters handle the object, person, or situation is up to you. Your challenge: [...]
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Posted on November 15, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
John Kelly writes: …I am a Charlottesville writer and wanted to share news of a book I recently co-authored with Charlottesville native Kate Atwood. A Healing Place, which was released just last week by Perigee, is a practical guide to helping parents and caregivers help kids to live lives colored by, but not defined by, [...]
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Posted on November 14, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
How To Use An Apostrophe – The Oatmeal – The flow chart you've been waiting for. Via the ever-lovely Lifehacker.com.
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Posted on November 12, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
I picked this tidbit up from the WriterHouse member newsletter: 2009 Community Poets Contest Bus Lines is now rolling out its Community Poets contest. All residents of Charlottesville and Albemarle County are invited to submit up to three original poems on the theme of Transportation. Lucky winners will have their poems posted on CTS buses this [...]
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Posted on November 11, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Quote of the day at BookBalloon: Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. ~ Edward Gibbon
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Posted on November 11, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
STET!: Fraud In Publishing (Jeff Moores) "We’ve all heard the stories of people pretending to be legitimate literary agents, then charging bogus fees to unsuspecting writers, or recommending freelance editors who give kickbacks in the form of crisp US currency. There are websites where authors can go to compile information on these people, to help [...]
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