Have You Read . . . ?

September 18, 2009

If the lush green island above looks strangely familiar, that’s because you’ve undoubtedly seen it many times before. Although if you’re having trouble placing just how you know this beautiful wild landscape, that’s because you’re probably used to seeing it look more like this: Of course you know that the second picture is Manhattan Island […]


September 8, 2009

It Was a Dark and Stormy Night A while back a book on the library shelf caught my eye: 15,003 Answers: The Ultimate Trivia Encyclopedia, 2nd edition.  Just imagine how many family arguments could be settled at the Thanksgiving table if you had this book handy. Having given it a quick perusal, I found a […]


In the Pink

September 5, 2009

Browsing through the Recent Arrivals section here at EPL is a dangerous proposition. Finding incredible, brand new books that are just begging to be read is the easy part. It’s finding the time to read all the intriguing new books that’s hard. Next time you’re in the library, make some time to wander the section […]


Sony promotes E-books

August 28, 2009

I spotted an article yesterday about an e-book search tool that Sony is promoting. Here are the first few lines, and a link. – Jeff B., Reader’s Services Librarians’ delight: A device that helps readers borrow e-books Sony unveils tool to help readers find e-books on the e-shelves of local libraries By Matt Hamblen August […]


The Meaning of Ichiro by Robert Whiting

August 25, 2009

“Americans liked Ichiro because, for one thing, he was a throwback to another time. He had reintroduced them to a style of offense that many MLB fans, accustomed to andro-induced sluggers and tape-measure home runs, had forgotten – an attack based on the single, the hit and run, and intrepid baserunning that had once defined […]


An Interview with Joan Wickersham

August 24, 2009

Joan Wickersham’s fiction has appeared in a wide array of literary journals. She has also written essays and reviews for publications such as Glamour and Yankee, as well as a regular column in Architecture Boston magazine. Her first novel The Paper Anniversary was published in 1993. In 2008 her most recent book The Suicide Index: […]


Shark Poetry: Not Just for Sharks Anymore

August 24, 2009

In honor of Shark Week, the Discovery Channel’s annual weeklong series of television programs devoted to sharks, Poets.org has compiled 35 Poems about Sharks, and examined how the animals have been represented in classic and contemporary poetry.


Have You Read . . . ?

August 24, 2009

Today’s find from out of the stacks is a little book called Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six-Word Memoirs by Writers Famous and Obscure. The book is a project of SMITH Magazine, an online publication and community for storytellers of all stripes. Among other story projects, in 2006 SMITH launched the six-word memoir project […]


Have You Heard . . . ?

August 14, 2009

Since even those of us who work at the library are constantly surprised by all the cool, new, old, interesting, inspiring, and sometimes just downright strange books, music, movies, and websites that we come across every day, we’ve decided to start this new periodic column on the blog in order to share some of the more […]


Keep Your Hands Off My Kindle, Big Brother

August 3, 2009

It seems somehow very appropriate that George Orwell’s novels 1984 and Animal Farm are at the center of a controversy (and now lawsuit) surrounding Amazon’s unannounced deletions of the books from its customers’ Kindle ebook readers. It seems that the copies of the books Amazon had been selling were unauthorized versions, and when the bookselling […]


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