Banned #Books Week 2013
American Library Association and several other groups such as the American Booksellers Association are hosting the 2013 edition of Banned Books Week – which this year goes from September 24-28. The...
View ArticleUpcoming Phantom Library (a taste)
I have been reading this blog post by Alonzo McBride and rereading PHANTOMS ON THE BOOKSHELVES by Jacques Bonnet. Great book. There are plenty of relevant points in the small text to library...
View ArticleLibrary Journal Review of Moretti’s THE BOURGEOIS
I admit I posted this update to my writing a bit late. C’est la vie. LIBRARY JOURNAL has published a starred review written by me of Franco Moretti’s THE BOURGEOIS: BETWEEN HISTORY AND LITERATURE in...
View ArticleJorge Luis Borges and #Book Suggestions
Open Culture has a post listing the top 74 books, as suggested by Jorge Luis Borges, a reader should have in their personal library. (click on the image to be redirected to the posting at Open Culture)...
View Article#Libraries Deepen the #Past with #History
One thing that seems to have gotten lost in the current conversation about access to information in libraries, scholarly communication (by way of Open Access Journals etc) is the notion that these...
View ArticleMy Featured SHORT Review
I learned recently that the blog connected with the Best American Poetry series, an anthology and promotional series that has been running for about 30 years, spotlighted my Library Journal review of...
View ArticleLibrary Journal Review of Ford Madox Ford
My review of Pallas Athene’s 2013 publication of Ford Madox Ford’s impressionistic memoirs, Memories of a Pre-Raphaelite Youth, has been published in the 01 October 2013 issue of Library Journal. The...
View ArticleBanned #Books Week 2013
American Library Association and several other groups such as the American Booksellers Association are hosting the 2013 edition of Banned Books Week – which this year goes from September 24-28. The...
View ArticleDepths of the Phantom Library
Depths of the Phantom Library: Jacques Bonnet Reaches for the Unreachable. Jacques Bonnet writes in, Phantoms on the Bookshelves, of a vast library. No, not the Borgesian library of “The Library of...
View ArticleUpcoming Phantom Library (a taste)
I have been reading this blog post by Alonzo McBride and rereading PHANTOMS ON THE BOOKSHELVES by Jacques Bonnet. Great book. There are plenty of relevant points in the small text to library...
View ArticleLibrary Journal Review of Moretti’s THE BOURGEOIS
I admit I posted this update to my writing a bit late. C’est la vie. LIBRARY JOURNAL has published a starred review written by me of Franco Moretti’s THE BOURGEOIS: BETWEEN HISTORY AND LITERATURE in...
View ArticleTwo Essays Published at GRL
I recommend all readers dash over to Gently Read Literature and subscribe to the 2013 publication cycle so you can read my two review essays on Robert Day’s Where I am Now – Stories and Neil de la...
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