You may already know Jen Sorensen from her comic, Slowpoke, that appears in C-Ville Weekly. But did you also know that she’s a nationally syndicated cartoonist who hobnobs with the likes of Ruben Bolling and Tom Tomorrow, and is the author of three compilations of her best work? Her latest book is One Nation, Oh [...]
Viva La Feminista: Book Review – Slowpoke: One Nation, Oh My God!
“But what is funny is Jen’s ability to not only skewer those of the political persuasion, but also our own activities in this crazy thing called life.”
cvilleMUSE » Blog Archive » A Mixed Reading: The Poetry Series
“Instead of creating a mix of songs, let’s [...]
Ira Glass on creative excellence (HT Open Culture):
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Bowker, the global leader in bibliographic information management, today released statistics on U.S. book publishing for 2007, compiled from its Books In Print® database. Based on preliminary figures from U.S. publishers, Bowker is projecting that U.S. title output in 2007 increased slightly to 276,649 new titles and editions, up from the 274,416 that were published [...]
Mill Valley’s Molarsky is still writing at 98
“But it wasn’t until last year that the 98-year-old Mill Valley resident wrote his first novel, a contemporary political satire called “The Noah Hour.” Yeah, unfortunately, all the agents want is “chick-lit.” Riiiiight.
Obama Practices Looking-Off-Into-Future Pose | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source
“The blink humanizes him,” Hosking [...]
From Charlie’s Diary:
Either way, the direct costs of the Iraq war exceed the maximum cost estimate for a manned Mars expedition, infrastructure and all, by 20%. If we take $20Bn as the cost per mission and $450Bn as the cost to develop the technology to go there, the direct cost of the Iraq war would [...]
Filming ‘The Road’ – At the End of the World, Honing the Father-Son Dynamic – NYTimes.com
“What’s moving and shocking about McCarthy’s book is that it’s so believable,” Mr. Hillcoat said. “So what we wanted is a kind of heightened realism, as opposed to the ‘Mad Max’ thing, which is all about high concept and spectacle.”
Ninja [...]
On Thursday, June 12 at Noon
New Dominion Bookshop will host
Carolyn Chadwick, producer of NPR/National Geographic’s Radio Expedition, and
Alex Chadwick, NPR news correspondent,
who will present and discuss
Tactics of Hope: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Changing Our World
by Wilford Welch
A hundred years from now, people all over the world will look back at this time, the [...]
The latest email from the Bridge turned me on to this upcoming event:
Mildred Pierce is proud to present:
ISSUE THREE
“they’ve made us wait far too long, two years too long”
“bloated…stuffed…overstuffed with words and image”
“a delight on par with Marat/Sade”
“terrible splendor!!!!!”
“lots of fun. funnywunnywun.”
see below for more on the contents of The Notorious Issue Three.
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