Counting this entry, I have managed to turn up on four blogs this week. I’ve been guest-blogging at Bookslut, which I always get a kick out of. Bookslut ought to be part of your regular lit-net rounds if it’s not already. For the Chronicle’s Wired Campus blog, I wrote about “Collector in Chief,” a new… Continue reading »
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The (Temporary?) New Golden Age of the Library Book Sale
On a wet Saturday a couple of weeks ago, my 7-year-old daughter reminded me that our local library was having its book sale. So she, her younger brother, and I piled in the car and headed over. After about 20 minutes, the kids settled themselves in a corner with a stack of books more than… Continue reading »
Dickens, Commitment, and Me
So I’m reading Michael Slater’s new biography of Charles Dickens. (It has very, very small print, but that’s neither here nor there for the purposes of this post. It is a little trying on the eyes, though.) Slater focuses on Dickens as a working writer. The guy worked, then worked some more, then did some… Continue reading »
Q&A: Oliver Jeffers
Ever since my children brought home a copy of Oliver Jeffers’s picture book The Incredible Book Eating Boy, it’s been a family favorite. It’s about a boy named Henry who devours book–really eats them, bindings and all. (The back cover has a big chomp taken out of it.) We sent Oliver a fan note, which… Continue reading »
Two More Podcasts
My adventures in podcasting continue. First, I joined Dan Cohen, Mills Kelly, and Tom Scheinfeldt on their “Digital Campus” podcast (Episode 51, “The Inevitable iPad,” Jan. 28, 2010). We recorded the podcast the day after Apple’s big iPad announcement, so we talked a lot about what the iPad might or might not do for teaching… Continue reading »
