27th Jan2011

CALENDAR SALE! 50% OFF!

by Janina

The time has come! All our calendars are now 50% off the marked price, that means calendars from our Remainder department are 50% off the Remainder price!

Get here quick and get your calendar before they are gone!

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22nd Jan2011

News This Week (January 21st)

by Janina

An anonymous, fictional novel about Barack Obama spawns a witch hunt.

We can expect 6 books from Bob Dylan.

Poet, May Ivimy, dies at 98.

Painter and poet, Malangatana Ngwenya, dies at 74.

Anthony Horwitz will write a new Sherlock Holmes novel.

Ann Hathaway will be the new Cat Woman.

Watch a free H.P. Lovecraft documentary.

Margaret Atwood will release a new children’s book.

See Jonathan Safran Foer explain the formatting of his new book.

Kids reenact A Wrinkle in Time in 90 seconds.

Fight Club . . . a Fincher/Reznor musical?

The 2011 Edgar Award nominees.

It turns out… hideous fonts may serve a purpose.

Patti Smith talks to Charlie Rose about her memoir.

A writer consults her Magic 8 Ball.

Chicago gets a Literary Hall of Fame.

Top 10 dead bodies in literature.

Is your favorite book out of print? Neversink Library would like to help.

Yoko Ono sells the publishing rights to John Lennon’s letters.

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15th Jan2011

News This Week (January 15th)

by Janina

Contemporary authors pick their top contemporary authors.

Gish Jen picks 3 modern fables to capture your imagination.

On America’s failure to keep up in the digital library race.

The Yearly Moby Dick Marathon and other reading marathons.

The importance of the Divine Comedy on modern physics.

Book signing events in clothing stores?

America’s third poetry only bookstore opens in Boulder Colorado.

Author, journalist, and Latin American Literature champion, Bella Jozef, dies at 84.

On the love of book inscriptions.

Paulo Coehlo, who’s books are banned in Iran,  asks Brazil to intervene on his behalf.

Trent Reznor will score the American production of The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.

The new production of The Great Gatsby might be filmed in 3D.

Read an article on Jane Gardam.

Sophie Calle writes about her experiences as a photographer.

Art critic and biographer, B. H. Friedman, dies at 84.

On Zora Neale Hurston and 3 of her out of print stories.

Door to door book sales in Brazil is a growing industry.

A new device lets you make your own digital books.

The JFK library is digitizing it’s entire collection.

What corporate America is reading.

Washington D.C. is America’s most literate city.

McSweeney’s will publish the mock memoir of Donald Rumsfeld.

The British Library publishes an app for some of it’s oldest manuscripts.

Top 10 beards in literature.

Neil Gaiman will be in the Simpsons.

After more than a year of legal debate, 60 Years Later: Coming Through the Rye settles with the J.D. Salinger estate.

Staff picks from the Paris Review.

What books were bestsellers the week you were born?

The Hipster Huckleberry Finn.

Julian Assange has his own online coloring book.

Salma Hayeck will produce a Wicked miniseries.

Diamond book distributors, the largest distributor of comics and graphic novels,  has suspended shipments to Borders.

Get a lifetime subscription to Black Ocean Books, tattoo required.

Borders closes Tennessee distribution center.

Batman recruits a Muslim crime fighter and stirs up opposition among American conservatives.

See celebrity libraries.


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