"There is just the human race, racism is a construct" - Toni Morrison On recently rereading Beloved for the first time, being an American writer, racism and much more. 7 minutes of pure joy.
Barnes & Noble is going back to its roots, shifts focus back to print
Granted they just announced a new bundling program for the holiday season, ‘B&N Sync Up!’ where you can buy one or more paperbacks from a specially curated selection and get the NOOK Book digital edition for just $4.99 but if you look a little closer at two other recent moves you just might get a glimpse of where they world's largest bookstore chain is heading. 1. B&N enters the print on demand business. “With the introduction of the NOOK Press print service, we’re providing authors, creators, crafters and more with a powerful new tool to bring their writing to print,” said Theresa Horner, General Manager...
Plan C: The Book Side of Interstellar
Christopher Nolan's latest film Interstellar is an epic experience. It's length, coming in at just under 3 hours, is a salute to endurance (of both your body and the human race) and a supersonic mediation on time. It is a battle of an earthly dystopia, with planet earth just one generation from being inhabitable, vs. a space utopia, where the survival of the human race is poised to come from the exploration of space. In both worlds the book has a strong presence and it is through books that both worlds communicate with each other. On earth, it is the library in Molly's room....
Women charged with arson for torching books at Tacoma library
She was a regular patron who was at the central branch of the Tacoma Public Library "virtually every day" with no history of trouble but on Saturday all that changed when she set fire to a shelf of books in the American History section. 250 people were evacuated. The suspect "admitted she had an issue with a library worker earlier in the day and admitted to wanting to burn down the library." And the books she chose to start the fire? Biographies of three recent Republican presidents; Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush. The library is scheduled to reopen tomorrow....
Take Poems Once a Day and call me in the morning: Deborah Alma – Emergency Poet
Meet Deborah Alma the Emergency Poet and mastermind of "the world’s first and only mobile poetic first aid service." Dressed in white coat and stethoscope, Emergency Poet travels the UK in her 1970’s ambulance, accompanied by Nurse Verse or The Poemedic. Her domain - literary and music festivals, libraries, schools, pubs, weddings and conferences… "anywhere where poetic help may be urgently required…" Emergency Poet offers consultations inside her ambulance and prescribes poems as cures. In the waiting room under an attached awning Nurse Verse dispenses poemcetamols and other poetic pills and treatments from the Cold Comfort Pharmacy. Perhaps the folks at Wave...