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>The New York Times Book Review has named, based on a poll of 125 notable authors and critics (although really: what the hell is Curtis Sittenfeld doing on that list?), Toni Morrison's Beloved as the best American work of fiction published in the last twenty-five years. Beloved received fifteen votes,...
>Patricia Polacco has re-uploaded her statement about her IRA non-appearance on her website, but now prefaces it with a note urging her supporters to take aim at No Child Left Behind, not SRA/McGraw-Hill. Which kind of makes her statement a non-issue, but if it makes more people understand what NCLB...
>From my mail, it seems that the big children's book story from Chicago last week was SRA/McGraw Hill's cancellation of an appearance by Patricia Polacco at the International Reading Association convention there. Apparently, SRA/McGraw Hill wanted Polacco's speech to refrain from comment on the No Child Left Behind Act, a...
>Semi-juicy stuff here on book packager Alloy, link courtesy of Gawker. But you'll want to slap Francine Pascal, honestly....
>Just below the online Boston Globe's latest story on Kaavya-gate is another on the removal of an art show at Brandeis University. Curated by student Lior Halperin, the exhibition displays paintings solicited from young people living in a Palestinian refugee camp, and was pulled by the university administration after complaints...
>In real life, I get along with cats just fine, but for some reason I can't stand reading about them--I think it's because they're always made out to be so smug. (My friend Ruth, who has had cats for years, says that the enigmatic look they're always giving you is...
>I do love TLA. The librarians I meet there are hardworking, engaged in the profession, and funny, and their capacity for multitasking can be awesome, as with the young librarian-in-progress who visited our booth, where she filled out a subscription form (both Magazine and Guide, thank you Lord), talked about...
>From today's Boston Globe, another plagiarism case, this one involving a coupla chicklits sitting around apparently talking. Call me a mean 'ol misogynist, but given the tropes that the genre recycles again and again, are we surprised?I'm off today to the Texas Library Association conference in Houston, so if anyone...
>So today we were threatened with legal action by a disgruntled publisher who wanted us to stop reviewing their books. They wrote that if we did review any more of their titles, they would "seek legal remedies on the grounds that your publication is publishing misinformation" about their books. Meaning...
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