[youtube]https://youtu.be/X7aJ3xaDMuM[/youtube] Q: Are there any benefits to a physical encyclopedia compared to the internet or wikipedia? A: I'm pretty sure there is but no. Fine Brothers Entertainment produces a video series called REACT where they present participants with a topic and then discuss. The latest episode features a group of teens reacting to an encyclopedia. OMG, it's both hysterical and terrifying at the same time.
Watch Harper Lee see a finished copy of “Go Set a Watchman” for the first time
Photo: © 2015 Mary Murphy and Company LLC New York's PBS flagship station THIRTEEN is all over the release of Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman," her much anticipated follow-up novel to "To Kill A Mockingbird". THIRTEEN Days of Harper Lee is a 13-day, multi-platform event celebrating the release of "Go Set a Watchman" that runs through Friday, July 17. As part of the festivities Harper Lee: American Masters documentary filmmaker and author Mary McDonagh Murphy met with Harper Lee and company on June 30, 2015, in Monroeville, Alabama prior to the publication of Lee’s second novel, Go Set a Watchman. In an American Masters web...
For your viewing pleasure: Booklandia.TV, a new literary-focused Web channel from the University of Oregon
We noted there are food channels, sports channels and animal channels. However, we could not identify a book channel of any significance. Given the role of books in our culture, the idea made sense...Even people who don’t consider themselves avid readers recognize the influence of literature in their lives, from texts required in school to popular written works that make their way into film and television - faculty adviser Ed Madison Tough to argue with that reasoning. It also helps being 2 hours away from one of the best independent bookstores on the planet. Booklandia.TV is partnering with Powell's Books and...
Allen Ginsberg on censorship, language and police brutality
[youtube]https://youtu.be/rj17WbJ1k7k[/youtube] In 1968 Allen Ginsberg appeared on Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr. The topic was the Avant-Garde but it wasn't long before Ginsberg, who Buckley refers to as "the hippie's hippie, the bohemian prototype," turns the discussion to the power of the media, censorship and language. He points out how the language of the media is a far cry from the language of the everyday and how the language the police use "toward hippies and Negroes" never enters the public discourse so one can never get a true picture of what happened. This was almost 50 years ago!
Tub Lit: Kickstarter project offers waterproof books
The latest crowdsourced gem for the book crowd comes to us from Bibliobath. Thanks to Wing Weng and Jasper Jansen, a Dutch-Chinese couple based in Amsterdam, we finally have the waterproof book! They have 4 titles ready to go; a selection of short stories by Mark Twain, one of the selected poetry by W. B. Yeats, an edition of Shakespeare's Macbeth and a special Kickstarter-only edition of the Chinese classic The Art of War. The campaign just launched and the goal is to raise about $10,000 in the next month. Among the rewards are a couple geared...