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By TED
Software developer Mike Matas demos the first full-length interactive book for the iPad – with clever, swipeable video and graphics and some very cool data visualizations to play with. The book is Our Choice, Al Gore’s sequel to An Inconvenient Truth.
Posted on April 29, 2011
By The Beachwood Hidden Compartment Affairs Bureau
1. Book Diversion Safe.
Posted on April 28, 2011
By AP
A copy of The Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the world’s oldest printed books, dating to 1493, is for sale.
Posted on April 25, 2011
By ChristianFocus
Last week a few folks from Christian Focus Publications were in attendance at the 2011 Gospel Coalition conference in Chicago. Our Christian Focus, Mentor, and Christian Heritage imprints were featured at the Christian Focus Publications table in the main book area, while our CF4K titles were featured on the children’s book tables.
Posted on April 18, 2011
By ProductionsPlusTV
The Talent Shop’s Margery Krevsky discusses her book Sirens of Chrome and auto show product specialists on WLS-TV in Chicago.
Posted on April 13, 2011
By Vertigo1871
Weird Tales is an American fantasy and horror fiction pulp magazine first published in March 1923.
It ceased its original run in September 1954, after 279 issues, but has since been revived.
The magazine was set up in Chicago by J.C. Henneberger, an ex-journalist with a taste for the macabre. The “sub-genre” pioneered by Weird Tales writers has come to be called weird fiction. The first editor published some of Weird Tales’ most famous writers, including H. P. Lovecraft, C. M. Eddy, Jr., Clark Ashton Smith and Seabury Quinn.
Posted on April 12, 2011
By SDPConference
Michelle Alexander, author of the groundbreaking new book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, talks about long-term impact of Black male incarceration on families, communities, Black women and economic infrastructures. She is speaking to conferees at the 8th annual Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference in Chicago.
Posted on April 11, 2011
By The Poetry Foundation
The Poetry Foundation is pleased to announce an exciting array of literary events and programs in celebration of National Poetry Month, April 2011.
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More than 20,000 free copies of Poetry’s April issue were distributed to 3,000 reading groups around the world in celebration of National Poetry Month.
The magazine introduced the giveaway program last year and has already seen a tenfold increase in participation.
In the April issue, Poetry readers will find new translations of Arthur Rimbaud by John Ashbery, as well as work from Averill Curdy, W.S. Di Piero, Atsuro Riley, C.K. Williams, Laura Kasischke, Karen An-hewi Lee, and more.
Readers can celebrate poetry, and find inspiration for talking and thinking about it, in the April issue’s discussion guide and with the Poetry podcast, which recently won a National Magazine Award in Digital Media. The current issue of the magazine is available online.
Posted on April 6, 2011
By In These Times
David Sirota is a Senior Editor of In These Times, a radio host, bestselling author and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. On a recent visit to Chicago, he talked to us about his new book, Back To Our Future, what 80s TV shows like The A-Team and even Highway to Heaven have in common with today’s political culture, and why he went on Fox & Friends.
Posted on April 5, 2011
