Monday Miscellany

Like Books? Like NPR? We Invite You To Explore The New NPR Books! NPR has spent 18 weeks significantly redesigning its books coverage. It looks like there’s a lot more information that’s a lot easier to find. This is a welcome change when print sources are cutting back on books coverage. Librarian finds digital divide […]

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Movie Review – ‘The Help’ – Life In The South, Through The Eyes Of ‘The Help’

Movie Review – ‘The Help’ – Life In The South, Through The Eyes Of ‘The Help’ : NPR. Even reviewers who don’t care for the film adaptation praise the acting of Viola Davis. Here’s what NPR’s Ella Taylor has to say: In his lumbering way, Taylor makes Stockett’s story his own by expanding the book’s

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Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books : NPR

Your Picks: Top 100 Science-Fiction, Fantasy Books : NPR. Back around the first of August NPR asked readers to vote on their favorite science fiction and fantasy novels (or series). The results are in. I’m not a big fan of science fiction and fantasy, so when I finished counting I was surprised to find that

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“The Help” the movie: Two more reviews

Los Angeles Times: Critic Betsy Sharkey writes: “The Help” is a delicious peppery stew of home-cooked, 1960s Southern-style racism that serves up a soulful dish of what ails us and what heals us. Laughter, which is ladled on thick as gravy, proves to be the secret ingredient — turning what should be a feel-bad movie

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Movies | ‘The Help’: Viola Davis elevates film over book | Seattle Times Newspaper

Movies | ‘The Help’: Viola Davis elevates film over book | Seattle Times Newspaper Is the movie version of “The Help” better than the book? Yes, it is, primarily for one reason: The book doesn’t have Viola Davis in it. I loved the novel The Help, with its focus on how telling our life story

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Survey Shows Publishing Expanded Since 2008 – NYTimes.com

Survey Shows Publishing Expanded Since 2008 – NYTimes.com The publishing industry has expanded in the past three years as Americans increasingly turned to e-books and juvenile and adult fiction, according to a new survey of thousands of publishers, retailers and distributors that challenges the doom and gloom that tends to dominate discussions of the industry’s

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Edgar Allan Poe House in Baltimore Faces Closing

Edgar Allan Poe House in Baltimore Faces Closing – NYTimes.com Even now, 162 years after his death here, Edgar Allan Poe still seems to be suffering from the kind of bad luck that haunted his life. For a second year city leaders have chosen not to subsidize a museum in the tiny house where the

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Monday Miscellany

Why Do We Care About Literary Awards? Mark O’Connell answers his own question: By and large, awards like the Booker are intended to promote solid, well-written, more or less middlebrow fiction — the kind of books that broadsheet newspapers tend to give coverage to. And that’s surely a good thing for the publishing industry, for

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