“Man Writes Dog: Death and Rebirth in the Canine Memoirs” by Terry Caesar in The Common Review explores the changing roles of dogs from “man’s (or woman’s) best friend” to “humankind’s saviors,” based on the ” evidence of the current proliferation of best-selling nonfiction memoirs about dogs.” The focus is on Jon Katz’s memoir of […]
Filed under: readers advisory, animals, memoirs on June 16th, 2008 | No Comments »
Many e-handouts from the Public Library Association meeting that wrapped up last week, most in PDF or .doc format. Topics include Reaching Out to the LGBT Community; Creating Musical Storytimes to Encourage Emergent Literacy; Creating Dynamic Library Atmospheres; The Digital Revolution and Libraries - What’s Next?; Public Libraries as Community Problem Solvers ; Market Driven […]
Filed under: readers advisory, libraries, non-fiction, technology, memoirs, librarianship on April 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
In Publisher’s Weekly this week: “Abstinence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder: Christian sex books sell, even when no one is having sex” by Jana Riess: “It’s a truism in publishing that sex sells. What’s unusual in Christian publishing is not that sex sells, but that even books telling people not to have sex sell.”
The article […]
Filed under: readers advisory, booklists, non-fiction, spirituality, memoirs, Christian books on March 7th, 2008 | No Comments »