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Apparently unfamiliar with "libraries", GOP Gov. candidate Bill Schuette proposes radical idea of "dedicated reading centers" to solve illiteracy crisis in Michigan

marzo 18, 2018

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Banning literature in prisons perpetuates a system that ignores inmate humanity

marzo 10, 2018

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The library of the future: Every year for the next 100 years, 100 famous authors have pledged to each write a novel that will remain unpublished until the 22nd Century, when they will be published as part of a 'Library of the future' art project.

marzo 04, 2018

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Dolly Parton donates 100 millionth book to children

febrero 28, 2018

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When asked if he thinks his book genuinely upsets people, Salman Rushdie said "The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don’t try and burn the planet down. There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn’t exist"

febrero 26, 2018

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13 years ago today Hunter S. Thompson committed suicide. My favorite thing he ever wrote is his "wave" speech.

febrero 20, 2018

“Strange memories on this nervous night in Las Vegas. Five years later? Six? It seems like a lifetime, or at least a Main Era—the kind of peak that never comes again. San Francisco in the middle sixties was a very special time and place to be a part of. Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run . . . but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time and the world. Whatever it meant. . . .History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody really understands at the time—and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.My central memory of that time seems to hang on one or five or maybe forty nights—or very early mornings—when I left the Fillmore half-crazy and, instead...

Children's book 'Love You Forever' simple four-lined verse was a poem the author would sing silently to himself after his wife gave birth to two stillborn babies.

febrero 11, 2018

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3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized & Made Freely Available Online, Thanks to Da Vinci Code Author Dan Brown

enero 25, 2018

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Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88

enero 23, 2018

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If you're familiar with George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, then I think you'd be interested in Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman(published in 1985). Here's the intro:

enero 20, 2018

We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sang softly in praise of themselves. The roots of liberal democracy had held. Wherever else the terror had happened, we, at least, had not been visited by Orwellian nightmares. But we had forgotten that alongside Orwell's dark vision, there was another - slightly older, slightly less well known, equally chilling: Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. Contrary to common belief even among the educated, Huxley and Orwell did not prophesy the same thing. Orwell warns that we will be overcome by an externally imposed oppression. But in Huxley's vision, no Big Brother is required to deprive people of their autonomy, maturity and history. As he saw it, people will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there wo...

Hilarious short quote about how Maurice Sendak (author/illustrator of Where the Wild Things Are) received what he calls the highest form of compliment by a child fan who wrote him.

enero 14, 2018

“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” That to me was one of the highest compliments I’ve ever received. He didn’t care that it was an original Maurice Sendak drawing or anything. He saw it, he loved it, he ate it.” - Maurice Sendaksource: goodreads.com via /r/books http://ift.tt/2mtmf2C “Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved it. I answer all my children’s letters — sometimes very hastily — but this one I lingered over. I sent him a card and I drew a picture of a Wild Thing on it. I wrote, “Dear Jim: I loved your card.” Then I got a letter back from his mother and she said, “Jim loved your card so much he ate it.” ...

Inmates at Three New York Prisons Can't Receive Donated Books Anymore, They Have to Buy Them

enero 11, 2018

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I'm dyslexic and I started off the year with the goal to read at least 1 book, I ended up reading 9!

diciembre 29, 2017

I'm very dyslexic. I didn't find out until I was 18 so I've just figured out ways to deal with it. At the beginning of the year I decided that I wanted to read at least one book in its entirety. I ended up reading 9 (which is more than I've ever read on my own in my life!) and gaining a whole new respect and love for reading. For me, reading was alway a very labored activity, I never enjoyed it. Now I read for enjoyment and I can understand why others do it too. Also I believe it has truly helped my dyslexia. via /r/books http://ift.tt/2C5z25X I'm very dyslexic. I didn't find out until I was 18 so I've just figured out ways to deal with it. At the beginning of the year I decided that I wanted to read at least one book in its entirety. I ended up reading 9 (which is more than I've ever read on my own in my life!) and gaining a whole new respect and love for reading. For me, reading was alway a very labored activity, I never enjoyed it. Now I read for en...

A series of travel books written for African Americans travelling in the segregated US of the last century is being republished

diciembre 19, 2017

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I am Andy Weir, author of The Martian, and my new book Artemis, out now. AMA!

diciembre 04, 2017

Hi, I'm Andy Weir, space dork and sci-fi enthusiast.Proof: http://ift.tt/2Bxxo8l of you know me as the guy who wrote "The Martian". Now I'm also the guy who wrote "Artemis". I'll talk about anything you want except politics. Ask away!I'll answer questions until 1pm Pacific time.Edit: Well time for me to go. Thanks for all the questions! IF you have lingering questions, you can always email me at sephalon@gmail.com. I answer all fan mail (though I can't guarantee to answer it right away). via /r/books http://ift.tt/2ATX2YQ Hi, I'm Andy Weir, space dork and sci-fi enthusiast. Proof: http://ift.tt/2A3HNwh Most of you know me as the guy who wrote "The Martian". Now I'm also the guy who wrote "Artemis". I'll talk about anything you want except politics. Ask away! I'll answer questions until 1pm Pacific time. Edit: Well time for me to go. Thanks for all the questions! IF you have lingering questions, you can al...

[Fahrenheit 451] This passage in which Captain Beatty details society's ultra-sensitivity to that which could cause offense, and the resulting anti-intellectualism culture which caters to the lowest common denominator seems to be more relevant and terrifying than ever.

noviembre 30, 2017

"Now let's take up the minorities in our civilization, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that! All the minor minor minorities with their navels to be kept clean. Authors, full of evil thoughts, lock up your typewriters. They did. Magazines became a nice blend of vanilla tapioca. Books, so the damned snobbish critics said, were dishwater. No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said. But the public, knowing what it wanted, spinning happily, let the comic-books survive. And the three-dimensional sex-magazine...