December 6, 2010
Oprah Winfrey announced today that she has chosen Great Expectations and A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens for her next book discussion. Check Oprah’s Website for details.
December 4, 2010
The inaugural ceremony for The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame took place on Saturday, November 20, 2010, at Northeastern Illinois University. Six writers, Nelson Algren, Saul Bellow, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lorraine Hansberry, Studs Terkel, and Richard Wright were inducted. Relatives and friends of the honorees accepted the awards. The hall will be housed in the historic Cliff Dwellers Club until it finds a permanent home.
Mary B, Reader’s Services
November 1, 2010
November is NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month), which means this is your chance to participate in a writing frenzy that aims to stifle your inner critic and get you to produce a full-length (50, 000-word) novel by the end of the month. (And no, you can’t simply write one word 50, 000 times and claim victory.) See the NaNoWriMo Website for details. Good luck!
Mary B., Reader’s Services
October 29, 2010
October 27, 2010
Poet Maya Angelou’s personal archive has been bought with private money and is going to be housed in the New York City Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in Harlem, NY, according to an article in today’s NY Times. The archive will enhance the center’s outstanding collection of art, artifacts, manuscripts, books, photos, etc., and reflects the library’s mission to acquire the best examples of black culture.
Mary B., Reader’s Services
May 6, 2010
The 2010 annual Printers Row Lit Fest will swing into town on June 12-13. Check out which of your favorite authors will be reading on the stages in the south loop setting via the Tribune Printers Row Lit Fest page.
Susan M./RA
http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/printers-row/printers-row-lit-fest-authors.html
March 19, 2010
Chicago Tribune Cultural Critic Julia Keller writes another interesting article on when to abandon a book
(Laura H.)
February 20, 2010
This post was originally published in the February 2010 issue of LibrarySparks.
I met Sharon Draper in a utility closet. Maya Angelou, Angela Johnson, and Jacqueline Woodson were there, too. I talked to Kadir Nelson, Ashley Bryan, and Walter Dean Myers. Yes, and even Christopher Paul Curtis. Can you guess the common thread that led to my encounters with these talented authors and illustrators?
I’m a librarian, but I don’t work in a library. In fact, for the last few months I’ve spent many hours working (quite happily) in a utility closet. Continue reading “African American author and book resources”
October 19, 2009
When Monday, October 26, 2009 Time 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Where Annie May Swift Auditorium 1920 Campus Dr map it
Audience – Faculty/Staff – Student – Public
Contact Jennifer Lynn Britton j-britton@northwestern.edu
Group English Department
More Info http://www.english.northwestern.edu/documents/MuslimAmPoets.pdf
Kazim Ali, Ibtisam Barakat,Raza Ali Hasan,Fady Joudah, and Khaled Mattawa will read from their work and conclude with a symposium, “The Muslim American Poet as Self and Other.”
10:00 – 12:30 Opening Remarks and Readings by Raza Ali Hasan, Ibtisam Barakat, and Fady Joudah
2:00 – 3:15 Readings by Kazim Ali, and Khaled Mattawa
3:30 – 5:30 A Symposium “The Muslim American Poet as Self and Other”
5:30 – 7:00 A reception
http://www.english.northwestern.edu/documents/MuslimAmPoets.pdf
February 14, 2009
Three Percent is a website dedicated to news, reviews, and information about contemporary international literature. The site gets its name from the fact that only about 3% of all books published in the United States are works of translation, and only a fraction (0.7%) of those books are literary fiction or poetry. These figures add up to literally a world of lost words and information. As ever-increasing globalization shrinks our world and blurs its borders, it is important to preserve and share in the unique cultures and ideas of other nations, and one of the best ways of doing this is by reading the literature of their peoples. Three Percent has recently announced its annual Longlist and Shortlist nominees for the best translated works of poetry and fiction of 2008. The winners will be announced on February 19th. You can find many of the finalists on our shelves here at the library. So stop by your local branch and read your way around the world.
