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 from an editorial in the NY Times by Douglas Martin on 4/14/2009

Judith F. Krug, who led the campaign by libraries against efforts to ban books, including helping found Banned Books Week, then fought laws and regulations to limit children’s access to the Internet, died Saturday in Evanston, Ill. She was 69.

The cause was stomach cancer, her son, ( Read more... )

Enter contest, go to Chicago

 *EDIT* Updated! Apparently I can trust Amazon for ISBN's, but dimensions and page counts can get tricky. Not too many fields left to fill out!

Tezuka, Osamu. (2007). Apollo’s Song. Paperback. New York: Vertical, Inc. 8 x 6 x 1.5

inches. 544 pages. ISBN: 978-1932234664 (Originally serialized in Japanese as Aporo No Uta in Shukan Shonen Kingu, ( Read more... )

The requirements for the Book Collection Contest are well within my geekish means. Over 25 of Tezuka's books, can easily write an essay about his stuff, and I plan to "develop my collection" by buying more of his stuff on Amazon and anywhere I find the out-of-print stuff.

The list of previous winners may look intimidating -- Faulkner! Mummies! -- ( Read more... )

http://www.mediadisorder.com/ranthoward/?p=71

The race: http://www.eggplantevents.com/gettothegreenraceinfo.htmRead more... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_ducks

One day, the last shall be first and the first shall be last. And they will all have contributed to and read from the List of Ducks.

The rare book collections curator at USC's Thomas Cooper library told me a couple months ago that USC holds the 4th-largest collection of John Milton in the world. Having enjoyed the recent Milton exhibit myself, I can confirm that USC's holding onto a handsome collection full of history and a variety of illustrated takes on Milton's work. Good job ( Read more... )

And in it, Cassandra was pregnant! Also, Tom Waits called me out for having worked in comfy jobs. I think he was also upset that I interrupted him while he was giving Severin fatherhood advice.

All of this took place in a dark theater.

-fin-