mixed up media • the Reduced Shakespeare company is performing All the Great Books (Abridged) in Buffalo, NY until April 9th. The Reduced Shakespeare Company’s homepage has their tour schedules.
essay • from the Lansing CityPulse we get a piece on ephemera’s steady popularity.
audio • NPR covers the new translation of ‘Persian Book of Kings‘
events • New York Magazine gives a run down of the readings happening about town, apparently public readings in bars is the new HOT ticket. alcohol and books, who knew?
in the gene • 14,400 words about Richard Dawkins’ The Selfish Gene: Thirty Years On, with some audio downloads.
talking heads • NC Second graders interview Magic Tree House author Mary Pope Osborne
histoblog • Military Historian Mark Grimsley just won award for his academically related blog – really it seem the more chaff i wad thru the more wheat i find – go figure.
cookie • Doris Kearns Goodwin’s Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln won the New-York Historical Society first Book Prize for American History.
silly shopping • things you find while looking for other thing, for those who buy or wear such things.
blog of note • BibliOdyssey is a blog devoted to illustrations from old book. and is WELL worth checking out. I will be adding this one to the sidebar.
dinner & a book • a TN reading group called “the Pica 18 Bold” group is the focus of this cheerful piece.
reviews
• A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore
• Quite Honestly by John Mortimer
peekaboo • Ethan Persoff collects wierd comics books and loads the scans on his site.
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