How To Introduce an Author

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Should a beloved, Pulitzer Prize-winning author have to hear the president of Northwestern?s Jewish students? society call him Michael Sha-BONE 8 times in 2 minutes? No. Because he flew across the country to speak for 50 minutes in your overheated auditorium and you have the internet.Related posts:

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Microsoft Invests $300 Million in B&Ns Digital
Subsidiary

post from GalleyCat on 30 April 2012 11:42:15 AM. © GalleyCat

Barnes & Noble and Microsoft settled their patent litigation dispute, partnering to build a new corner of Barnes & Noble’s business. Microsoft will invest $300 million into a new, unnamed subsidiary that will contain the bookseller’s digital and college businesses.

Microsoft will have an estimated 17.6 percent equity stake in the new company that will develop Barnes & Noble’s work on Nook eReaders and tablets. The new partnership will begin with a Nook application for Windows 8. The new subsidiary will also focus on ways that educational publishers can use Nook Study software to distribute digital materials.

Microsoft president Andy Lees had this statement: ?The shift to digital is putting the world?s libraries and newsstands in the palm of every person?s hand, and is the beginning of a journey that will impact how people read, interact with, and enjoy new forms of content … Our complementary assets will accelerate e-reading innovation across a broad range of Windows devices, enabling people to not just read stories, but to be part of them. We?re on the cusp of a revolution in reading.?

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On heaven, hell, certainty, and doubt

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“My Son Went to Heaven, and All I Got Was a No. 1 Best Seller,” my essay about Heaven is For Real, my own fundamentalist background, and my lifelong doubt, appeared in yesterday’s New York Times Magazine, underneath this illustration by Tom Gauld.

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Books-A-Million Executive Chairman & Family Make
Buyout Bid

post from GalleyCat on 30 April 2012 11:04:58 AM. © GalleyCat

Books-A-Million executive chairman Clyde B. Anderson and his family have made a bid to acquire all the publicly-held shares of the bookseller.

If the deal is accepted, the release noted that “the Anderson family expects the Company?s management to remain in place following the merger along with the rest of the Company?s valued employees.” The family currently owns 53 percent of the public company stock.

Here’s more from the release: “public shareholders would receive $3.05 per share in cash, representing a premium of approximately 20 percent over the closing price on April 27, 2012, and 13 percent over the average closing price of the Company?s common stock for the past 90 trading days. The proposal values the total equity of the Company at approximately $48.8 million.”

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How to Write the DOJ about the eBook Pricing
Lawsuit

post from GalleyCat on 30 April 2012 10:53:46 AM. © GalleyCat

Readers, writers and publishing professionals can share their thoughts about the Department of Justice’s lawsuit filed against Apple and publishers over eBook prices.

According to The Tunney Act, “members of the public have an opportunity to comment on the proposed settlement before it is accepted by the court.”

If you want to share your thoughts, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management posted information about how to contact the DOJ. Your submissions will be archived–the literary agency also noted that “written comments received from any person to be filed with the court and published in the Federal Register.”

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BOOK: I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella

post from an adventure in reading on 30 April 2012 10:37:21 AM. © an adventure in reading

I've Got Your Number, by Sophie Kinsella, 435 pages

Kinsella is the master of, what is dismissively called, 'chick lit.' She is most famous for The Shopaholic books, but some of her stand alone books have been my favorites: Remember Me? and Twenties Girl. I've Got Your Number reminded me more of the Shopaholic, still an enjoyable read, but covering more familiar characters and plot - silly good-hearted girl too concerned with what others think, high-powered man impressed with silly good-hearted girl, and misunderstandings a-plenty.

Poppy loses her fiance's heirloom engagement ring and her cell phone on the same day. She finds a cell phone (a necessity for today's modern girl) and tries to hide the fact that she's lost the ring. The cellphone belonged to the PA of high-powered Sam, which allows nosy Poppy to insinuate herself into Sam's business and personal life. The use of the cellphone and texting was very well done and makes this a modern Three's Company of misunderstandings and mixed signals.

Like most Shopaholic books, I am detachedly bemused in the first half of the book, and then suddenly in the second half, unable to put it down, and impressed with the plotting. Kinsella gradually sucks me in, and the characters grow just enough to keep me invested in the ending, which while telegraphed a mile away, turns out just the way you want. Sigh. Nicely done.

also reviewed: joy at thoughts of joy; martina at virginie says; colleen at books in the city; chris at book-a-rama; jonita at the book chick; lindsey at reeder reads;I have installed IntenseDebate commenting on my blog. Please wait a moment for the comments to load, if you click too quickly, the previous comments get lost:(

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Allen Ginsberg Battles Heckler During Live Poetry
Reading

post from GalleyCat on 30 April 2012 10:23:25 AM. © GalleyCat

Happy National Poetry Month! To end the month, we found an audio recording of Allen Ginsberg reading his poem, “What would you do if you lost it?”

This performance took place in February 1973 at New York City’s 92Y.

At the six-minute mark in the recording, fellow beat poet Gregory Corso began to heckle the poet on stage and Ginsberg responded with more poetry. Ginsberg’s dad, Louis, joined the poet on stage.

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Meet the Millions.

If you’re in NYC this coming Sunday, come out to KGB Bar and meet some Millionaires Millions staffers. Emily St. John Mandel, Michael Bourne, Garth Risk Halberg, and Sonya Chung will all be reading. Our editor in chief, C. Max Magee, and other friends and staffers will be there too, so if you’re able why [...]No related posts.

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Four Reasons why People Visit Literary Places

Top Withens, the ruin on the moors near Haworth that inspired Wuthering Heights This from David Herbert’s paperLITERARY PLACES, TOURISM AND THE HERITAGE EXPERIENCE, published in the Annals of Tourism Research, 2001. Herbert is Emeritus Professor of Geography at University of Wales Swansea People visit literary places for a variety of reasons. First, they are [...]

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Christine McNair and rob mclennan read in St.
Catharines, June 15, 2012

The Virus Reading Series presents:
rob mclennan and Christine McNair
Friday, June 15, 20127:30pm
Christine McNair has been published in Descant, CV2, Prairie Fire, Arc, ditchpoetry.com, Poetry is Dead, ottawater, the Bywords Quarterly Journal, and sundry other places. She won second prize (poetry) in the Atlantic Canadian Writing Competition, an honourable mention in the Eden Mills Literary Competition and was shortlisted for the 2011 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry. Her first book, Conflict, appeared with BookThug in May, 2012, and a chapbook, Notes from a cartywheel, appeared in 2011 with AngelHousePress. She works as a book doctor in Ottawa.
Born in Ottawa, Canada?s glorious capital city, rob mclennan currently lives in Ottawa. The author of more than twenty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, his most recent titles are the poetry collections Songs for little sleep, (Obvious Epiphanies, 2012), grief notes: (BlazeVOX [books], 2012), A (short) history of l. (BuschekBooks, 2011), Glengarry (Talonbooks, 2011) and kate street (Moira, 2011), and a second novel, missing persons (2009), as well as the travel volume, Ottawa: The Unknown City (2008). An editor and publisher, he runs above/ground press, Chaudiere Books (with Jennifer Mulligan), The Garneau Review, seventeen seconds: a journal of poetry and poetics and the Ottawa poetry pdf annual ottawater. He spent the 2007-8 academic year in Edmonton as writer-in-residence at the University of Alberta, and regularly posts reviews, essays, interviews and other notices at robmclennan.blogspot.com
Patrick Sheehan's Irish Pub101 St Paul Street, St Catharine ONhttp://www.greyborders.jigsy.com/virus-readings

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