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Source: www.nybooks.com Date: Nov 25, 2009 An article by Robert Darnton from The New York Review of Books, December 17, 2009 More Source: calitreview.com Date: Nov 25, 2009 Based on the novel by Richard Kaplow, Welles stars Efron as Richard Samuels, a student and budding actor who gets swept up in the world of theater when he is cast in a small role in Orson Welles’ 1937 production of Caesar. Young and naïve, Richard tries hard to navigate through Welles’ tantrums, More Source: www.guardian.co.uk Date: Nov 24, 2009 'I'd come back to the scene of the crime alone, by night,' posthumously acclaimed Chilean author reveals in newly translated interviews More Source: www.comicbookresources.com Date: Nov 18, 2009 Comic Book Resources - Daily Comic Book News, Reviews, Previews, Commentary and Message Boards More Source: www.resourceshelf.com Date: Nov 18, 2009 From the Announcement:Dr. Paul LeClerc, the French literature scholar who has guided The New York Public Library into the digital age—one of the most dramatic transitions in its history—has announced that he will retire from his position as President in the summer of 2011.At a meeting of its Board More Source: www.prweb.com Date: Nov 18, 2009 PR: In celebration of Xlibris’ entry into the UK publishing industry, authors who choose the Premium Package save £600 and receive free book returnability programme. You need Flash to see the Feature Video More Source: www.artsjournal.com Date: Nov 17, 2009 Su Tong's "The Boat to Redemption," a novel about "a playboy Communist party official who castrates himself after he is banished to live on a river barge," has won the Man Asian literary prize," which "goes to an 'Asian' novel unpublished in English."... More Source: www.blackbookmag.com Date: Nov 17, 2009 Maria Cornejo -- a favorite of the First Lady and arbiter of feminine yet distinctly modern styles, not to mention flats -- is introducing something for men this spring. According to The Cut, "the designer first previewed four unisex menswear looks at her Zero + Maria Cornejo spring 2010 runway More Source: www.rarebooknews.com Date: Nov 16, 2009 "Ralph Sipper, owner of Ralph Sipper/Books, said that people who collect rare books are interested in the books as artifacts. 'People buy them for the same reason that people buy a Picasso. They enjoy it, show it to their friends,... More Source: www.post-gazette.com Date: Nov 16, 2009 As a small boy in Santo Domingo, Junot Diaz lived with his mother and grandparents in a home with a leaky roof, no regular electricity and no running water. His life changed forever in 1974. More Source: www.telegraph.co.uk Date: Nov 13, 2009 Joe Allston tells us which publishers are up and which are down in the literary world More Source: www.umanitoba.ca Date: Nov 13, 2009 Subject Headings: Japanese Canadians-Evacuation and relocation, 1942-1945-Juvenile fiction. Racism-Juvenile fiction. Schools-Juvenile fiction. British Columbia-Juvenile fiction. Grades 4-7 / Ages 9-12. Review by Lizanne Eastwood. More Source: www.frommers.com Date: Nov 11, 2009 Sure, cruises are all about taking it easy, ditching the diet and being pampered. But a cushy setting doesn't have to equal a mindless one. A cruise offers the perfect learning environment too. More Source: www.hcl.harvard.edu Date: Nov 10, 2009 It is unlikely that many students, faculty members or researchers visit Houghton Library, Harvard’s primary repository for rare books and manuscripts in search of material relating to contemporary films. A new exhibition at the library, however, is sure to be of interest to fans of the film “Bright More Date: Nov 10, 2009 UK megastore Waterstone’s gets a rough, coldfingered, butterless rectal exam from The Guardian under the headline “How Waterstone’s killed bookselling“. You know, I bet today’s a bad day to be in Waterstone’s PR department. More Source: www.goethe.de Date: Nov 8, 2009 Is Friedrich Schiller so attractive for the theatre precisely because there was always an historian in the dramatist?... More Source: www.irishamericannews.com Date: Nov 5, 2009 the Irish American Heritage Center hosted iBAM's gala dinner honoring Irish in several important categories. Justice Anne Burke of the Illinois Supreme Court was honored as "Irish Person of the Year. More Source: news.uchicago.edu Date: Nov 5, 2009 The University of Chicago News Office has details on campus events, news releases, alumni events, The Chronicle, and press citations. More Source: www10.nytimes.com Date: Oct 29, 2009 A mass grave could hold the remains of Federico García Lorca, though it is not clear if the writer’s remains will ever be identified because his family opposes the exhumation. More Date: Oct 25, 2009 Last week, BBC Audiobooks America announced that it would sponsor the creation of a story via Twitter feed, using a first sentence written by author Neil Gaiman as the seed and inviting the public to collaborate in completing it, one 140-character passage at a time. More Previous | Next
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