Librarians Reshelve 27,000 Books After Virginia Earthquake – GalleyCat "Following the earthquake in Virginia this week, more than 27,000 books fell off the shelves at the University of Maryland’s McKeldin Library. As you can see at this university Flickr set, a crack team of librarians worked quickly to clean up the mess." –Librarians are more [...]
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BookBalloon Reading Club September Selection: The Sisters Brothersby Patrick Dewitt”If Eli and Charles Sisters come after you, brush up your will. Run and they’ll find you. Deal and they’ll trick you. Draw and they’ll shoot you. They’re the fabled assassins at the center of this bloody buddy story set on the West Coast in 1851. [...]
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NASA to Help Tor/Forge Authors Write ‘Scientifically Accurate & Entertaining Novels’ – GalleyCat "A few very lucky Tor/Forge authors will get to visit NASA as part of the publishers new “NASA inspired Works of Fiction” partnership with the space agency. Through the program Tor/Forge authors will work with NASA scientists and engineers, writing more “scientifically [...]
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Jeff Sharlet’s “Sweet Heaven When I Die: Faith, Faithlessness, and the Country in Between” – The Washington Post "Jeff Sharlet delivers a fine dose of thoughtful skepticism in “Sweet Heaven When I Die,” his collection of 13 trenchant essays on how we gain, lose, maintain and blindly accept faith. The book belongs to the tradition [...]
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The Top Ten Books That Influenced J.R.R. Tolkien | The Book Lady's Blog – StumbleUpon –I knew about some of these but not all. Good list if you're a Tolkien completist.
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How To Find the Book on the Tip of Your Tongue – GalleyCat "Trying to remember a book you read as a child? Need help finding the title of a short story you loved in college? Post your query on the Tip of My Tongue page at Reddit–hundreds of dedicated readers will help you find [...]
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School board removes Sherlock Holmes novel as derogatory to Mormons "A Virginia county school board is removing a Sherlock Holmes novel from the sixth-grade reading list after a parent's complaint that it is derogatory toward Mormons, The Charlottesville Daily Progress reports. The Victorian-era book, A Study in Scarlet, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was deemed [...]
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The Book Bench: A Tale of Two Houses : The New Yorker "With a cottage in the Bronx, a house in Philadelphia, a row house in Baltimore, and even a dorm room at the University of Virginia, Edgar Allan Poe has more residences preserved and open to the public than any other American author." Poe's [...]
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Authors Who Visit Book Clubs – GalleyCat "Want to spice up your book club? Explore our new Writers Who Visit Book Clubs directory and invite a nearby author to visit your group. Follow this Google Docs link to explore (and sort!) the genres, websites and contact information for writers near you." The Internet Review of [...]
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Privacy is a Luxury You Don't Have – Dorie Clark – Harvard Business Review "Hats off to the civil libertarians standing up for (aspects of) privacy — regulations about what information about us Mark Zuckerberg can hawk, appropriate default settings, and the like. But in a broader sense, we've already made the trade: if you're [...]
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From WriterHouse: Need more books? Of course you do! And we want to help you feed your need for the printed stuff, so to facilitate the habit, WriterHouse will be holding a book sale on Saturday, August 27 from 8am-4pm and Sunday, August 28 from noon-4pm.
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Truthfulness by the Numbers « BREVITY's Nonfiction Blog "We think his tongue might be partially (or fully) in his cheek, but all the same, Ben Yagoda (author of the excellent Memoir: A History, ) makes some fine sense with his recent “handy how-to guide” to determining the truthfulness of a memoir. He offers his 100-point [...]
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Draft Your Platform Action Plan: 5 Worksheets | Jane Friedman "Last weekend at the Midwest Writers Workshop, I offered a workshop on author platform building. Part of the workshop included 5 worksheets to help writers take an inventory of their platform (as it stands today), and also brainstorm how to better grow it." –Generosity! Click [...]
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Cool Tools: Writing Tools "This two-sided page contains the wisdom of an entire book on how to write better. Nay, it distills an entire shelf of the world's greatest writing manuals (and I have them all). After 30 years as both a writer and editor I can't think of much I would add to these [...]
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