Ready or Not Here I GO - Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Posted on Ready or Not Here I GO - Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States: Jump to the full entry & travel map Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States With Judith’s help laundry detergent, stain stick, Gold Bond powder, toileteries, underwear, pants, shoes, shirts in compressed ziplock bags, host gifts (Oklahoma Centennial [...]

Blog all dog-eared pages: Regarding The Pain Of Others, Susan Sontag

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Posted on Blog all dog-eared pages: Regarding The Pain Of Others, Susan Sontag: Regarding the Pain of Others is a long-form essay by Susan Sontag, examining the representation of suffering (and notably warfare) through the display of photographs. Published in 2003, in many ways, it is a follow up to some of the ideas examined [...]

Pop, mags, pretty: gettin’ up to speed

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Posted on Pop, mags, pretty: gettin’ up to speed: A girl (with a satchel) can’t step off the glossy ferris wheel for five minutes without news happening (seriously, how dare the world keep turning?!). As I’m getting up to speed (whee!), won’t you join me? - Vogue Australia is on sale tomorrow. It contains [...]

Seven Impossible Interviews Before Breakfast #76:Gail Gauthier & Chattin’ About Chapter Books

Tuesday, July 1st, 2008

Posted on Seven Impossible Interviews Before Breakfast #76:Gail Gauthier & Chattin’ About Chapter Books: There are two reasons we’re pleased that author Gail Gauthier has stopped by 7-Imp for a cyber-chat today: First, she’s in the midst of a blog tour for her second early chapter book about Hannah, Brandon, and one monster cat named [...]

The Poem I Turn To

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

Posted on The Poem I Turn To: Sourcebooks, Inc no longer qualifies as a “small publisher,” but it has kept its independent spirit and produces quality books for markets, such as poetry, that the really big publishers seem either to ignore or to treat almost as academic vanity presses — where the vanity in question [...]

Toby Young On Blogging

Friday, June 20th, 2008

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Posted on Toby Young On Blogging: Toby Young On Blogging TOBY Young on New York and blogging:  It has turned New York into what the philosopher Jeremy Bentham called a Panopticon — a type of prison in which all the prisoners are capable of being observed 24/7.  - Toby [...]

Memoir coming from Madonna’s brother

Friday, June 13th, 2008

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Posted on Memoir coming from Madonna’s brother: NEW YORK (AP) - The mystery is solved: Madonna’s brother, Christopher Ciccone, is writing a memoir about his sister, to be released in mid-July by an imprint of Simon & Schuster, the publisher told The Associated Press on Wednesday. (source)

Memoir coming from Madonna’s brother

Thursday, June 12th, 2008

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Posted on Memoir coming from Madonna’s brother: NEW YORK (AP) - The mystery is solved: Madonna’s brother,Christopher Ciccone, is writing a memoir about his sister, to be released in mid-July by an imprint of Simon & Schuster, the publisher told The Associated Press on Wednesday. (source)