Nishedhi
Very interesting!
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lovethebook.com
http://www.lovethebook.com/
The book lover's site for books. The latest news in books and authors.
- Added on: Jun 19th, 2006
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Mark Allan
- Listed in: Books
- Tags: books poetry literature authors book news book awards
Recent Posts
Claude Lévi-Strauss, 1908 - 2009, his works as a practical anti-racist manifesto
"I don't know if everyone read the works of Lévi-Strauss as some sort of practical anti-racist manifesto, infinitely more efficient than big Satre-like declarations. But for me, his works had this effect. Given my working conditions, what I was doin...
Power exercised by man over his fellow man is always a usurpation, Francisco Ayala, 1906 - 2009
Born in Granada on March 13, 1906, novelist and sociologist Francisco Ayala was one of Spain's leading intellectuals for the second half of the twentieth century. Ayala died Tuesday at age 103. He had long outlived the dictatorship of General Franci...
If you think you\'ll to be rich someday, why resent million-dollar bonuses: Barbara Ehrenreich on Positive Thinking
Barbara Ehrenreich on positive thinking as a system of social control: When bad things happen to people you say, "Well, it's really your attitude that has to change."...You take people who have been really victimized, and I use that word advisedly,...
The Potato that Became a Tomato, Playgiarist Raymond Federman, 1928 - 2009
You're born a playgiarizer or you are not. It's as simple as that. The laws of playgiarism are unwritten, it's a tabou, like incest, it cannot be legalized. The great playgiarizers of all time, Homer, Shakespeare, Rabelais, Diderot, Rimbaud, Proust, ...
Milton Meltzer, 1915 – 2009
"Meltzer was one of the first in a new wave of nonfiction writers who brought lively and passionate writing, grounded in original source material, to middle-grade students and young adults, without talking down to them." – Lisa Von Drasek, Children...
I knew I had no hope of winning: Simon Van Booy wins Frank O\'Connor Short Story Award for Love Begins in Winter
"I was very nervous coming to Cork for the Frank O'Connor Festival," Simon Van Booy said in his awards ceremony acceptance speech at Cork last week. "But I stopped being nervous when I read the other short-listed books. I was shocked by the qualit...
Comments & Reviews
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Badthing
Hi Mark :)
Thank you for the informative blog. I was especially interested in the section on Grace Paley, who was a non-violent activist.
HI, how is your business? I'm interested to find out if one can make a living with selling books online? Tell me if you don't mind:)
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