Congrats to Donovan Hohn (Moby-Duck) and Helen Oyeyemi (Mr. Fox), whose books made the New York Times list of 100 Notable Books of 2011!
November 2011
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Shopping for a stocking-stuffer for a young reader? The Times compiled a list of great children’s books to share this season. (Richard Peck’s Secrets at Sea made the cut!)
“When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved.”
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Happy Birthday, Mark Twain! (via nypl)
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“He liked all books, because he liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.”
—An Abundance of Katherines, John Green (via cocobeann)
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“The library is open.”
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According to The American Library Association, the Occupy Wall Street library is back up and running again after the November 15 evacuation of Zuccotti Park.
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Happy birthday, Moby-Dick! Melville’s classic turned 160 this week. Check out this Times slideshow of the book’s covers through the decades. (Need some motivation to tackle this tale? Pick up Nathaniel Philbrick’s Why Read Moby-Dick?)
Got a case of wanderlust? In this interview with MSNBC, Patricia Schultz discusses the new edition of her 2003 bestseller, 1,000 Places to See Before You Die.
“You want to write good characters with an unforgettable voice? In my experience it won’t kill you if you first figure out the character’s relationship with the telling, with the story, before you even think about what kind of words, what kind of languages, what kind of attitude these folks will be slinging.”
—In this Huffington Post feature, Junot Díaz doles out some words of wisdom for young writers.
Congrats to Edward Glaeser (Triumph of the City) and Margaret Heffernan (Willful Blindness), who were shortlisted for the Financial Times/Goldman Sachs Best Business Book award.
In this piece for Bloomberg Businessweek, The End of Wall Street author Roger Lowenstein discusses the Occupy Wall Street movement.
