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My (sort of) Fourteenth-Century Bar Mitzvah
And so it came to pass that on the 27th day of Tishri in the year 5725, young Stephen ben Kenneth ben Edward ben Morris ben Aaron of the House of Gertz (formerly Gershowitz, “Horse Traders to the Czar Since 1826”), who dwelt in the land of Queens in the province of New Judea also known as La Ciudad de Nueva York, reached his majority and was accepted into the congregation as a man because God, blessed be He who bestows savings bonds, apparently figures that when a boy’s sperm squad is mature enough for successful reconnaissance and friendly fire...
Attention Letterpress Printers: Remember Mutanabbi Street!
Make Books Not War. Sarah BodmanIn March 2007 a car bomb exploded on al-Mutanabbi Street in Baghdad. 30 people were killed and over 100 injured. What made this particular event stand out was that Mutanabbi Street was the center of the Baghdad bookselling world and the heart and soul of the Baghdad literary and intellectual community. It was named after 10th century Arab poet, Al-Mutanabbi.To commemorate and protest this most violent form of censorship the Al-Mutanabbi Street Coalition was created. It was founded by San Francisco poet and bookseller Beau Beausoleil and since April of 2007 they have been organizing...
Book in a Day
Beginning tomorrow morning a group of writers will collaborate on writing a book about London. They will have one day to write it!The entire book will be written online using Google Documents. They're calling it the 24hrBook Project and it is being sponsored by the folks at if:book, The Society of Young Publishers and CompletelyNovel.com.When the day ends a group of editors and publishers will swarm in to get the book into shape and ready for publication.In addition to the book being available to read online Completelynovel.com will have it ready to be printed on demand beginning Monday.An interesting idea...
First Ig® Nobel Prize Awarded For Literature
Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), which annually bestows Ig® Nobel Prizes to those in the scientific community “for achievements that first make people LAUGH then make them THINK,” awarded its first Ig® Nobel for literature last night at its gala 19th First Annual Ig® Nobel Awards ceremony at Harvard's Sanders Theater.And the winner of the 2009 Ig® Nobel Award in Literature is:“Ireland's police service (An Garda Siochana), for writing and presenting more than fifty traffic tickets to the most frequent driving offender in the country — Prawo Jazdy — whose name in Polish means ‘Driving License.'Accepting on behalf of Ireland’s...