Tag: books
In Praise Of Those Books You Dare Not Read.
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Sep 30, 2008 at 07:31:14 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
For 26 years, the American Library Association (ALA), the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the Association of American Publishers, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the National Association of College Stores band together on the last week in September to lead a celebration of the freedom to read. Calling itself "Banned Books Week" (BBW) it celebrates those books which are favorite boogeymen of the banned book crowd by disclosing the ten most complained about tomes.
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jPod: Score One For Canadian TV?
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Posted to Media on Fri Aug 08, 2008 at 08:14:58 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Somewhere deep in the cube farm of a Vancouver, BC corporate megalith that "resembles, but legally no way is Electronic Arts" lies a group of videogame programmers known as Jpod. As a group they're younger, more attractive, closer-knit and slightly more screwed up than most software engineers. Moreover, they spend an entertaining but unrealistic amount of work time dealing with family issues and Chinese gangsters. Wait, what?
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Laughter, The Final Solution
MayorBob.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Mar 18, 2008 at 02:58:06 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
Sam Gross is a cartoonist. He seems cut from the same bolt of cloth as Charles Addams or Gary Larson. His métier is to take the ordinary, give it a bizarre twist, but make sure it's funny. Gross' latest effort is one which could hit a raw nerve rather than the funny bone, however. Because, in the mind of at least one book critic, even when the cartoon's drawn by a 74-year-old Jew, not everyone is going to be amused.
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TnT Top Ten: Escapist Fiction Authors
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Posted to Etcetera on Mon Mar 17, 2008 at 09:03:09 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
Horror, Fantasy, Romance, Mystery, and Science Fiction may not often great literature make, but these five specialty genres are the mainstays of escapist / genre fiction, which also just happens to be one of the mainstays of the American publishing industry.
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You Can't Hide Your Scrying Eyes--Predict Harry Potter's End
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Posted to Media on Fri Jul 20, 2007 at 07:13:22 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
On Saturday the 21st of July, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is set to go on sale world-wide. Already an Amazon all-time bestseller before it even ships, brick-and-mortar stores across the globe are bracing for the inevitable crush of buyers, to be followed by wails of despair the following day as Pettigrew kills Hermione in chapter 14.
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The candidates hit the air
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Posted to Politics on Thu Jun 28, 2007 at 03:28:15 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
At perhaps one of the earliest possible dates on the calendar in political history the US Presidential candidates are starting to air their TV spots.
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No More Bookstores, No More Books, No More Librarian's Dirty Looks?
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Posted to Etcetera on Tue May 29, 2007 at 08:41:19 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.
Tom Wayne's recent immolation of the merchandise at his bookstore in Kansas City, occurred to call attention to the fact that Wayne thinks people aren't reading enough books these days.
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