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Banned Books Week is the celebration of books challenged in libraries and classrooms across the nation. Books are banned for various reasons, but most are banned for content not deemed appropriate for readers. The list of banned books is lengthy, and contains some of the most timeless pieces of literature ever produced. It is the [more...]  We’ve received an update on the travels and adventures of the intrepid David and Janet Carle as they do the ground work behind their upcoming THE 38th PARALLEL: A WATER LINE AROUND THE WORLD, which is scheduled to be published in 2012. They’re still in Japan, talking to people about tsunami recovery and the restoration [more...] Of all the books we have on our Fall 2011 list, I don’t think you’ll find a more timely title than Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon by Dr. Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa. I don’t think I need to tell you why this stirring tale of a man overcoming stigma and borders [more...] function addLoadEvent1(func) { This month, we’re publishing Hidden Alcatraz, a unique collection of images taken by thirty-four photographers who were granted unprecedented access to the island. Guided by rangers, they explored places off the normal day tour: the prison roof and lighthouse; the hospital; the tunnels; the morgue; the rumored “dungeon” beneath the cell blocks. At midnight, [more...] Planet Money‘s recent episode, “Why Are Credit Card Agreements So Long?”, brought up the vexing issue of legal contracts, and why, paradoxically, making credit card statements simpler also makes them longer. Perhaps the authors of these barely-comprehensible contracts should pick up a copy of The Lawyer’s Guide to Writing Well, a mainstay of the UC [more...] What sort of calendar person are you? Are you one of those curious souls who skips ahead to see what art awaits them in oncoming months or are you the type content to live life one month at a time, you’ll see next month’s image when next month rolls around? I ask because one of the [more...] The BBC World Service recently interviewed Bob Hirst, editor at the Mark Twain Project, and John Freeman, editor of Granta Magazine, which published an excerpt of the Autobiography of Mark Twain in its most recent issue. Granta chose the excerpt, called “The Farm”, for the clarity and detail of Twain’s childhood memories, said Freeman: “This piece [more...] Since 1992, Youth Radio has been an outlet for young people to find their own voices and tell their own stories through media. In Drop that Knowledge: Youth Radio Stories, Elisabeth Soep and Vivian Chavez explore the process of writing and producing these stories, which air on major outlets like NPR and KQED, and the [more...] There are many revelations in the Autobiography of Mark Twain, and Newsweek found today that these only make Twain more intriguing: “The more you read, the more complicated he seems….He is still a mystery, a riddle wrapped in an enigma shrouded in a white suit”. Twain had many faces, living at various times as a reporter, [more...] |
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