'To Kill a Mockingbird' Author Repudiates Journalist's Memoir About Her – NYTimes.com 'On Tuesday, Penguin Press announced that it had acquired “The Mockingbird Next Door: Life With Harper Lee,” a memoir by the former reporter Marja Mills that was “written with direct access to Harper and Alice Lee and their friends and family.”' –Harper Lee [...]
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Write Every Day "Not all of the advice we offer in these postings may work for you – but this one will: Write every day. Write something. Every day. Easier said than done, right? Here are some suggestions for making it happen…." Some great tips here for any kind of writing you need or want [...]
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Top 20 Facebook Apps for Book Lovers – GalleyCat "To celebrate 3,000 new friends on our GalleyCat Facebook page, we’ve compiled a list of the top 20 book-focused apps on Facebook–we’ve ranked them in order of monthly active users."
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Philosophy Referee Signals — Marginal Revolution Exactly what it says. Submission guidelines: Will the fallen VQR rise again? | The Hook – Charlottesville's weekly newspaper, news magazine "…the magazine has managed to preserve its publishing streak, gotten nominated again for several National Magazine Awards, and has already won in the digital category for an interactive [...]
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Jon Krakauer Publishes Greg Mortenson Expose – GalleyCat "Journalist Jon Krakauer has published an expose of author Greg Mortenson with a new long form journalism site, Byliner. As a promotion, you can download a PDF copy for free today; a Kindle Single edition will be published on Wednesday."
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Report: "Three Cups of Tea" inaccurate – Yahoo! News "NEW YORK – A "60 Minutes" investigation alleges that the inspirational multimillion seller "Three Cups of Tea" is filled with inaccuracies and that co-author Greg Mortenson's charitable organization has taken credit for building schools that don't exist." Oh dear. Via Bookballoon.com Guide to Literary Agents – [...]
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Virginia Arts of the Book Center: Events A convenient round-up of events and classes at the VABC. A unique resource in our community.
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Reading and Book Signing at New Dominion Bookshop with Janisse Ray April 20 at 12:15 PM A House of Branches Poems by Janisse Ray “Before she became the acclaimed author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, Wild Card Quilt and Pinhook, Janisse Ray was a poet, a calling she has never abandoned. Nor has it [...]
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The Book Bench: Review Poems in 140 Characters (But Don’t Call them Tweets) : The New Yorker 'Hands-down, Martial wrote the shortest, harshest reviews in the Western canon: “His verse was meant to strike me low / But, since he wrote it—who will know?”' Good one, Martial. 5 Alternatives To a Creative Writing MFA – [...]
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13.4.41 « THE ORWELL PRIZE "Looking back to the early part of this diary, I see how my political predictions have been falsified, and yet, as it were, the revolutionary changes that I expected are happening, but in slow motion. I made an entry, I see, implying that private advertisements would have disappeared from the [...]
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Jefferson-Madison-Regional Library will be bringing Poem in Your Pocket Day to the Library region by providing our community with some poems for their pockets on April 14. These poems will be printed on small slips of paper, rolled into poem scrolls, then distributed free of charge at all JMRL libraries. Volunteers throughout Charlottesville and Albemarle [...]
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