Lefties attempt to get into U.S. bookselling market July 4, 2008 | 1:16 PM | By Scott MacDonald There’s a new online bookselling venture in the U.S. called the Progressive Book Club, and though it doesn’t ship to Canada at the moment, it’s still worth a look. …
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Teacher suspended over Freedom Writers
http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/04/teacher-suspended-over-freedom-writers/Teacher suspended over Freedom Writers July 4, 2008 | 12:18 PM | By Scott MacDonald A teacher in Indiana has been suspended without pay for 18 months for using The Freedom Writers Diary, a widely lauded collection of biographical stories written by inner-city teenagers, as part of her curriculum. …
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Bookmarks: dirty books, disposable books, and Welsh books
http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2008/07/03/bookmarks-dirty-books-disposable-books-and-welsh-books/Bookmarks: dirty books, disposable books, and Welsh books July 3, 2008 | 2:00 PM | By Nathan Whitlock Some book-related links: Indiana bookstore won’t have to register to sell dirty books (Courier-Journal) Speaking of which, shy and retiring Gene Simmons to launch new book on prostitution …
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bookn3rd
http://bookn3rd.comInstructables: Creating, cutting and printing your own woodblock (moleskinerie)House Calls 6 / Box Clever / Drug bust etc., (Bookride)Google Middle Ages (Got Medieval)No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (Notes for Bibliophiles)Bytes and pieces (Quillblog)The Smallest Letter in the World (Hoefler & Frere-Jones)Grab Bag (BibliOdyssey)Polaroid Book Stash (Hang Fire Books)Should the Bayeux tapestry be brought back to England? (News for Medievalists
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Pasha recommends some books
http://pashamalla.wordpress.com/2008/06/30/pasha-recommends-...Over at the Quillblog, Pasha offers some recommendations for your summer reading. Honestly I’ve never heard of any of these books, but generally speaking, if a book isn’t about dragons or high school crushes, it’s not on my radar.
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Links
http://bookn3rd.com/?p=82, an anatomy book published in 1542. — More on the library rescue (and photos) at the University of Iowa, from the Fine Books Blog. — Video of a CNN commentator calling books for boys “emasculating.” Via Quillblog. — From the NY Times, a piece on the last volume of Camus’s notebooks to be translated into English. @copyright www.bookn3rd.com All Rights Reserved.
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Matt’s Bookosphere 6/24/08
http://entertheoctopus.wordpress.com/2008/06/24/matts-bookos...The fun thing with rewrites is, you get to hate your book all over again.” - Greg Van Eekhout Ian Rankin works to make Scotland more literate Cool review of Dark Animus #10/#11 Review of Flytrap #9 Tim Pratt says he’s out of stories… Need some Summer Reading Picks? Welcome…to Urban Fantasy Land! Review: “Hell and Earth” by Elizabeth Bear The Post-Apocalyptic is Red Hot Leo Tolstoy and Sunblock Agent representing authors posthumously All of us love the Wolverine Frog, Matt, but it needs its space
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Summer Reading Lists
http://savvyreader.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/06/summer-read...the Quill and Quire's blog has some Canadian authors discussing what pages they'll be flipping this summer
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LITTLE CHILDREN
http://www.carpemedium.net/2008/06/49/s crucial for child development. For the sake of America’s future, I say: better that they spend 44.5 hours per week in front of various electronic devices. Elsewhere in the series, Cristina Nehring blasts the cold-blooded killers of the ”essay” genre: “They [make] no effort to make their experience relevant or useful to anyone else, with no effort to extract from it any generalizable insight into the human condition.”
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LITTLE CHILDREN
http://www.carpemedium.net/2008/06/little-children/s crucial for child development. For the sake of America’s future, I say: better that they spend 44.5 hours per week in front of various electronic devices. Elsewhere in the series, Cristina Nehring blasts the cold-blooded killers of the ”essay” genre: “They [make] no effort to make their experience relevant or useful to anyone else, with no effort to extract from it any generalizable insight into the human condition.”
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Lord Black and Nixonland
http://januarymagazine.com/2008/06/lord-black-and-nixonland....Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America by Rick Perlstein was published by Scribner in mid-May and has been well-reviewed in other places. Black’s New York Sun review is here. Tip of the hat to Quill & Quire.
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The Best of Canadian Poetry chosen for Quill and Quire's Fall Preview!
http://tightropebooks.blogspot.com/2008/06/best-of-canadian-...Quill and Quire's Fall Preview! Based on the successful American version that is edited yearly by David Lehman, the anthology is drawn from Canadian literary journals and magazines from the proceeding year. From a long list of 100 poems this year's guest editor Stephanie Bolster has
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The current scoop about cosmetic surgery
http://george-foreman-grill-infoyvb.blogspot.com/2008/06/cur...K Govt. during the month of sharavan ( July and August); the dates however , vary every year looking at the weather conditions and according to Purnima (Raksha Bandhan) in the month of Sharavan (Vikrama Samwat). To read or e-read: that is the question Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:47:13 PDT To read or e-read: that is the question June 18, 2008 | 4:47 PM | By Tabassum Siddiqui There seems to be no shortage of opinions in the press lately on e-book readers. In a column today, veteran New York Times writer and
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