virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
At The China Beat, Michael Cunningham reviews Obama's visit to China with links to the best coverage and commentary. Link picked by Danwei.org
Danwei (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
At The China Beat, Michael Cunningham reviews Obama's visit to China with links to the best coverage and commentary. Link picked by Danwei.org
Film Experience Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Sing your favorite stars a happy birthday in the privacy of your own home. Maybe not out loud. Happy birthday to Ethan, Rebecca and Mike 11/06 Today's filmic / famous birthdays. If it's your own birthday shout it out. It's your day, after all. 1882 Thomas H Ince actor who became a lifeguard then an actor again until he was a pioneering film director who became a studio mogul until he morphed into Cary...
Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
LGBT people born today: 1924 – Jeanette Schmid – Czech Whistler – Died 9 th March 2005 1926 – Jackie Forster – UK Presenter / Reporter / Actress / Activist – Died 10 th October 1998 1939 – Arthur Bell – US Journalist / Author / Activist – Died 2 nd June 1984 1949 – Brad Davis – US Actor – Died 8 th September 1991 1950 – Torben...
Jess (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
The founders of Electric Literature , a new quarterly literary magazine, seek nothing less than to revitalize the short story in the age of the short attention span. To do so, they allow readers to enjoy the magazine any way they like: on paper, Kindle , e-book, iPhone and, starting next month, as an audiobook. YouTube videos feature collaborations among their writers and visual artists and musicians....
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
"Congratulations to all ten of you. I'll put you all in my blog." author Margaret Atwood told the 2009 Whiting Writers' Award recipients last night. She delivered some droll advice for the winners: "Write a cookbook or a book about vampires. Or troll through the classics, adding monsters...Or, better yet, write a vampire cookbook." Last night, ten authors received a $50,000 check...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
"Congratulations to all ten of you. I'll put you all in my blog." author Margaret Atwood told the 2009 Whiting Writers' Award recipients last night. She delivered some droll advice for the winners: "Write a cookbook or a book about vampires. Or troll through the classics, adding monsters...Or, better yet, write a vampire cookbook." Last night, ten authors received a $50,000 check...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Serving Literature by the Tweet By Felicia Lee Published in The New York Times: October 27, 2009 The founders of Electric Literature, a new quarterly literary magazine, seek nothing less than to revitalize the short story in the age of the short attention span. To do so, they allow readers to enjoy the magazine any way they like: on paper, Kindle , e-book, iPhone and, starting next month, as an audiobook....
Lessons in Curating. Lessons in Culture. (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
It's gotten to the point where we over here at HERSblogworld have so many last minute plans for you that you might as well just permanently clear your schedule and await instruction, you know? DEFINITELY free yourself up Wednesday night, because Electric Literature is hosting their second issue release party at DROM, and it sounds like it's going to be stellar. From the lovely folks of EL, the Wednesday...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
It takes a lot to bring America's greatest living fiction, non-fiction, and journalism writers into one room, but if one woman could do, it's Tina Brown . The Daily Beast editor-in-chief hosted the first ever Norman Mailer Colony soiree at Cipriani last night, to celebrate the non-profit in which promising young writers get to live in Norman Mailer's house in Massachusetts for a week to a month. Guests...
Belfast Media | Home (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
New figures that show a small stretch of North Belfast is one of the city's worst crime hotspots has been blamed on the area becoming ‘ghettoised’ with apartments. Statistics obtained by the North Belfast News show that the area known as Little America, a stretch of streets off the Antrim Road, has one of the worst crime rates in the city. From the beginning of January until the end of...
Ask Nicola (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
I've been astounded by the rumpus around the Booker : Harrumph , the litsnobs say, it's historical fiction, not literature! [Imagine that drawn out to about five syllable.] Jumped up little.. . [Dissolves into muttering and 'Pass the port'.] Wolf Hall is a novel set in the past. So is Orlando , and The Name of the Rose , and Atonement , and (maybe, depending how you squint at it) One Hundred Years...
] Outside the Lines [ (Free subscription) | 10/08/2009
David LaFontaine, professor in the English department at Massasoit Community College, offers up this important call to action in the Boston Globe recently . LaFontaine served as chairman of the Governor’s Commission on Gay and Lesbian Youth from 1992 to 2000. Here are some highlights: MASSACHUSETTS HAS a history of national leadership in the area of gay rights, but when it comes to the state’s...
TED BURKE, like it or not (Free subscription) | 10/03/2009
Underworld -- Don DeLillo Yes, the novel sprawls over the years and the characters in sideways fashion, but DeLillo has managed sprawl to good effect before, and here he does not slacken in skill. The search for the baseball, about which not much is known is except rumor purporting to be History, big H, lays the ground beautifully for a series of stories linked by the search for a usable , recent past...
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Aeropostale Inc. said Thursday that its Chief Executive Julian Geiger, who has been at the helm of the teen retailer since 1996, is stepping down to exercise the right of election granted to him as part of his employment contract. Mindy Meads, president and chief merchandising officer, and Thomas Johnson, chief operating officer, will serve as co-CEOs of the company. Chief...
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