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By: Rebecca,
on 2/14/2008
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Happy Valentine’s Day to all! To celebrate Valentine’s Day I thought it would be nice to share the love, language love that is. So today, instead of Ben’s column, please go check out some of his fellow wordies. Be sure to leave comments and let them know how much you love their blogs. Over the next couple weeks some of these illustrious bloggers will be guest blogging in this space so stay tuned.
Take a look at Mark Peter’s language guide for parents or his Wordlustitude blog.
Swing by Jeff Prucher’s blog for an interesting meditation on horror as a genre.
Then click over to Grant Barrett’s Double-Tongued Dictionary which can keep you busy for hours on end.
Don’t miss Erin McKean’s Dictionary Evangelist blog which proves just how much fun you can have with language.
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By: Stephanie,
on 1/16/2008
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By Anatoly Liberman
Our civilization has reached a stage at which together we are extremely powerful and in our individual capacities nearly helpless. We (that is, we as a body) can solve the most complicated mathematical problems, but our children no longer know the multiplication table. Since they can use a calculator to find out how much six times seven is, why bother? Also, WE can fly from New York to Stockholm in a few hours, but, when asked where Sweden is, thousands of people answer with a sigh that they did not take geography in high school: it must be somewhere up there on the map. There is no need to know anything: given the necessary software, clever machines will do all the work and leave us playing videogames and making virtual love. The worst anti-utopias did not predict such a separation between communal omniscience and personal ignorance, such a complete rift between collective wisdom and individual stultification. (more…)
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By: Rebecca,
on 9/14/2007
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Below Philip Davis, author of Bernard Malamud: A Writer’s Life, combines science with literature to convince us to read out loud more often. To read his other blog posts click here. This piece first appeared in Moreover.
I have just launched a new M.A. course in bibliotherapy—by which I mean to ask, What help can reading provide for people? But I am not allowed to call the course “M.A. in bibliotherapy” because some of scientists at my university were not too keen on the word, accepted though it is in the States. I think they confused it with aromatherapy, when in the great words of the poet Gray, on the neglect of lowly human worth:
Full many a flower is born to blush unseen
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By: Rebecca,
on 6/26/2007
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School is out for summer, July 4th is rapidly approaching, ice cream trucks are circling your neighborhood (at least they are in mine…), and you need a good book to read on vacation. Now is when the Good Fiction Guide, edited by Jane Rogers, comes in handy. The guide features subject essays and over 1,100 entries on writers ranging from Chinua Achebe to Emile Zola. Each subject entry features a list of fiction books you MUST read. To inspire you towards lofty summer reading goals I have excerpted a few below. (more…)
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By: Rebecca,
on 6/7/2007
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I’m very excited for this month’s book club pick for two reasons: I have never read Tess of the D’Urbervilles; before (so don’t ruin the ending for me!), and I plan on reading it by the water (in Bucks County) while soaking up some sunshine. Get your copy now so you can join our conversation on Thursday, June 28th. We really do want to hear what you think so feel free to leave comments, questions for others and suggestions. (more…)
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on 6/6/2007
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It has been a lot of fun (and educational!) to have John Ferling featured on the OUPblog this week. Be sure to check out his original essay and his Q and A. Below we have excerpted the beginning of the introduction to Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War of Independence, entitled “My Country, My Honor, My Life”: Bravery and Death in War.
October 18, 1776. Captain William Glanville Evelyn, resplendent in his British uniform, stood tall in a coal-black landing barge, the first orange rays of daylight streaming over him and glistening on the calm waters of Pelham Bay above Manhattan. Men were all about him, in his craft and in countless others. They were soldiers, part of an operation that had begun hours earlier during the cold, dark night. (more…)
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By: Rebecca,
on 5/10/2007
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Just in case you haven’t had a chance to start reading Joseph Conrad’s The Secret Agent we thought we would give you a little teaser. Below is the first page. Be sure to check back on May 24th for our discussion as part of our Oxford World’s Classics Book Club.
Mr. Verloc, going out in the morning, left his shop nominally in charge of his brother-in-law. (more…)
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[…] from Librarian.net (thanks for the heads-up Jessamyn!) […]
Is it just me, or is the poster image almost impossible to view on screen without a convex lens?
Why can’t I click and see the larger image?
As per previous comment. I’m referring to the ALA link, not Unshelved.
Am I the only one concerned about the placement of the African-American man’s clenched fist over the monkey’s groin (and the smile on the monkey’s face)?
Giuseppe, it gets worse (or better): that’s no monkey, it’s a beaver!