Take the time you were going to spend reading Freedom to instead watch this video review of Freedom by Ron Charles. BRILLIANT!!
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links for 2010-08-31
Posted on August 31, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
Beatrice.com » Stieg Larsson Was a Bad, Bad Writer "I was ready to see for myself what all the fuss was about… except, as I quickly discovered just a few pages into the first volume, the Millennium trilogy is the worst batch of fiction to reach #1 on the bestseller lists since—well, I don’t know [...]
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links for 2010-08-30
Posted on August 30, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
C-Ville: Feedback "Jackson Landers, the 32-year-old local man who garnered a writeup in the New York Times for his classes that offer a link between hunting and the local food movement, says that he is working on a pilot for Animal Planet, tentatively called "Eating Aliens." The show would follow Landers as he travels the [...]
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links for 2010-08-28
Posted on August 28, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
ScriptDC "ScriptDC is the premiere conference for Mid-Atlantic writers and filmmakers to achieve their creative dreams by connecting them with accomplished teachers, consultants and industry professionals." October 15-17, near the Gallery Place Metro C-Ville: Open Studio – Checking in with Browning Porter "Checking in with Browning Porter: Poet, storyteller, musician and graphic designer" Great interview, [...]
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links for 2010-08-27
Posted on August 27, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
Leo Hunter Lands Book Deal at 6-Years-Old – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat "Most 6-year-olds are reading Dr. Seuss and moving on to Harry Potter. Leo Hunter isn't just reading books, he's also writing them. Strategic Book Publishing has signed a 23-book deal with the 6-year-old UK native." Hey, don't laugh. I bet they're good. Especially numbers 12-15. [...]
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Life With Objects
Posted on August 26, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
Combine catchy web design with great storytelling, and you get Life With Objects – Objects: Those things in the backgrounds of our pictures, cluttering our bookshelves and stuffed in drawers. We’re collecting their stories here—to celebrate and remember the strange intimacies of life with ordinary objects. Tell us a good story and we’ll make sure [...]
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links for 2010-08-25
Posted on August 25, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
First: Wittman ignores Ball debate challenge | WhenVirginiaWasBlue.com "First District Republican incumbent Rob Wittman is still not responding to requests to schedule debates with Democratic challenger Krystal Ball." "Krystal Ball." Wanted: Marketing Intern "Are you studying marketing or interested in the field? WriterHouse is looking for a Marketing Intern for this fall and possibly beyond." [...]
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links for 2010-08-24
Posted on August 24, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
Prime Number Magazine Prime Decimals Day! Prime magazine updates its site with a story, some poetry, and some "flash non-fiction."
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links for 2010-08-23
Posted on August 23, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
Editorial Notebook – Say It Loud – NYTimes.com "A good phrase was offered by Kathy Williams, the teacher who invited Dr. Hazen to deal with her students’ inferiority complex. She quoted her 93-year-old grandmother’s version of “cool!” “Grandma Glenna always says, ‘Forever more!’ ” “Forever more!” she shouted, offering the youngsters something old that sounded [...]
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links for 2010-08-21
Posted on August 21, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
Donate Your Kindle To Our Troops – mediabistro.com: GalleyCat "The nonprofit E-Books for Troops will help you share your used Kindle with our troops overseas–building a supply chain to provide eBooks and eReaders for soldiers. Here's more about the program: "While the soldier of yesteryear could ill afford to carry more than two to three [...]
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BookBalloon’s September reading club selection: Lolly Willowes
Posted on August 20, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
BookBalloon September Reading Club Selection: Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman by Silvia Townsend Warner “This is the witty, eerie, tender but firm life history of a middle-class Englishwoman who politely declines to make the expected connection with the opposite sex and becomes a witch instead.” — John Updike Discussion of Lolly Willowes begins September [...]
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VABC Moving Sale Saturday
Posted on August 20, 2010 by Elizabeth McCullough
From the VABC, We are two days away from the Virginia Arts of the Book Center’s Moving Sale…1-5PM Saturday, August 21. Now even more interesting items have been added online (see pics): http://virginiabookarts.org/2010/08/the-vabc-is-moving/ Come to make an offer and haul it away that day. The surplus auction starts at 1:30PM…selected furniture, paper, marbled paper, cloth, [...]
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