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Event photo: Geoffrey Taylor gets schooled | Quill & Quire

Blog | www.quillandquire.com | 1 hour 8 minutes ago

Daily updates from the blog division of Quill & Quire, Canada’s magazine of book news and reviews As reported earlier on Quillblog, IFOA head Geoffrey Taylor has been awarded an honorary degree from the School of Creative & Performing Arts at the Humber

http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/09/event-photo-geoffrey-taylor-gets-schooled/

Digitally Revamped Library Eschews Books, Stacks

News | www.npr.org | 1 hour 29 minutes ago

A boarding school in Massachusetts has removed its stacks and book collection to make way for Kindles and a subscription to millions of digital books. Administrators say the changes reflect current student habits; critics say they're rash and don't account for different learning styles.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120097876&ft=1&f=1013

The Workings of Percival Everett

News | www.conversationalreading.com | 1 hour 31 minutes ago

Dan has some intriguing thoughts on Percival Everett: Everett certainly does take liberties with form in his novels, and they are liberties frequently accomplished to hilarious effect. However, these efforts seem mostly directed toward simply dismantling the novel as "form", without much interest

http://www.conversationalreading.com/2009/11/the-workings-of-percival-everett.html

Book News for Monday, November 9, 2009

Blog | www.powells.com | 1 hour 43 minutes ago

Powell's Books is the largest independent used and new bookstore in the world. We carry an extensive collection of out of print rare, and technical titles as well as many other new and used books in every field.

http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=10317

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News and Notes: Links

Blog | www.semicolonblog.com | 1 hour 47 minutes ago

Esther Hautzig, who wrote The Endless Steppe a memoir of her familys deportation to Siberia in 1939, died November 1, 2009. She was 79 years old.Betsy at Fuse #8 knew and worked with Ms. Hautzig.School Library Journal article on Ms. Hautzig: In Hautzig’s many appearances at

http://www.semicolonblog.com/?p=7794

Margo Lanagan’s 2009 Printz Speech

Blog | blog.booklistonline.com | 1 hour 55 minutes ago

Given some of the more intense scenes and themes in Margo Lanagan’s dark, boundary-pushing, and extravagantly written Tender Morsels, it wasnt outrageous to expect something a little scandalous in her acceptance speech at the 2009 Michael L. Printz Awards (administered by ALA Young Adult

http://blog.booklistonline.com/2009/11/09/margo-lanagans-2009-printz-speech/

To Heaven by Water author Justin Cartwright - author interview [Michael Leonard/curledup.com]

News | www.curledup.com | 2 hours 7 minutes ago

Justin Cartwright: My inspiration is always the same, the sense that life as human beings live it is endlessly fascinating, and that we are all striving if not to make sense of it, to fix ourselves in the universe.

http://www.curledup.com/intjcartwright.htm