Favorite Tweets:
Favorite Search Terms:
- things with horns: unicorns, dragons, cars, dinosaurs, rhinoceros, some bugs…I just laughed out loud when I saw someone googled this because a few weeks ago, at the teen center, we were playing family feud and all the guys wanted to put “cars” and I was yelling “unicorns!!” and guess who had more points? ME.
- the human mind is not capable of grasping the universe. we are like a little child entering a huge library. the walls are covered to the ceilings with books in: I can’t even fit this whole google on this page. Someone wanted to get philosophical with the google machine.
- poem to remind the boys to lift a toilet lid: I just know some fed-up mom googled this. I want a poem to make sure my nephew pees into the bowl and not along the rim where other people place their delicates.
Book News:
- Literary Ink @ Flavorwire
- What are the Best Poems of the Last 25 Years @ Big Think
Ploughshares Single Launches Next Week (check out the cover to your right) @ Ploughshares- Scribner Classics Hemingway Giveaway @ Scribner
- Rare Book Collection @ The New York Times
- New York Poetry Festival @ Poetry Foundation
- Self-Made Man Series #13 @ The Rumpus
- An Open-Letter to Unfinished Books @ Thought Catalog
- Ask an Expert: Best Summer Books @ Time Entertainment
- Writing Advice from Writers Who Give Good Advice @ Triquarterly
- Million Dollar Book Deal @ Melville House
- The Biggest Novels of 2012 @ The Guardian
- Ask Paris Review Where to Get Published @ Paris Review Blog
- Half Price Books SALE @ Half Price Books
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Behind the Scenes at CMYK. Creating Vintage Book Covers
Personal Libraries of Famous Authors @ Brain Pickings
- Tolstoy Wasn’t Sendak, Either @ Letters of Note
- Fall 2012: Amazon Anticipated Reads @ Huff Post
- Justice Department to Book Industry @ Shelf Awareness
- Listen to T.S. Eliot @ Open Culture
- Fifty Shades of Prey @ Huff Post Books
- Young Adult Fiction Finalists @ NPR
- Vote for the Best Teen Novels @ NPR
- Emily Dickinson in Love @ Los Angeles Review of Books
- Elissa Schappell Interview @ Work in Progress
- Harry Potter Fired in Parody @ Galley Cat
- Hidden Messages of Harry Potter @ Huff Post
- Poetry of Infancy @ NPR & Poetry Foundation
- George R.R. Martin Interview @ Indie Wire
- Missed Connections Poetry on Craigslist @ The New York Times
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Gatsby Character Map @ Simon and Schuster
Gatsby Character Map @ Simon and Schuster
- Ways Your Brain Sabotages Your Writing @ Lit Reactor
- A Postcard @ Girls Write Now
- Poetry of Parenthood @ NPR
- My Local Indie Bookstores Keeping Literature Alive @ INDY
- Perugia Press Prize for Women in Poetry (2nd Book) @ Perugia Press
- Creative Nonfiction Award Goes to Hilary Dean @ The Star
- The Great American Novelist Tournament @ The Guardian
- How to Write Sex Scenes @ Twit Longer
- Charles Bukowski on Censorship @ Letters of Note
- Haunted Bookstore @ Huff Post Books
- Ode to Libraries @ Huff Post Books
- Why E-Book Subscriptions Would Never Work @ Huff Post Books
- Publishers Search for Next EL James Online @ The Guardian
- The Story of a Runaway Girl @ NPR
- Hemingway Days Has Started in Key West @ Female First
9 Books That Make You Undatable @ Huff Post Books- Five Funny Books with Substance @ NPR
- In Six Words: My Favorite Place to Write @ She Writes
- Found Poetry Rejection Letter Edition @ The Rumpus
- Wearable Poetry @ Poetry Foundation
- Poems Inspired by Triton @ Granta
- Obituary Written by a Man with Throat Cancer Before he Passed Away @ Salt Lake Tribune
- Top Ten Reasons a Literary Snob Won’t Go Out With You @ The Good Life
- New Dictionary Words @ Huff Post Books
- A Six-Year Old Guesses About Classic Books @ Babble
Tom Gauld Literary Comics @ Nouvella- Jimmy Fallons’ Do Not Read List for Summer @ Huff Post Books
- What I Won’t and Will Miss by Nora Ephron @ Lists of Note
- Katharine Mansfield Mystery Stops the Press @ The Independent
- Three Ways Publishers Can Avoid Extinction @ Huff Post
- Some Famous Rejections (including Sylvia Plath) @ Poetry Foundation
July 25th, 2012 at 4:44 pm
I’m sooo glad you posted this! Now I know it’s okay to write about male pattern baldness. Um…what about beer bellies without the beer? Good luck in your upcoming job (and I hope your move went well:<).
July 25th, 2012 at 4:45 pm
Haha! Yes! I don’t think I’ve ever read a book with a main bald character. I can’t think of any, in fact! You need to write one so that there’s one in the world! : ) And yes, beer belly too – add that in.
Thanks for the luck – I’m going to need it. Teenagers!
July 25th, 2012 at 8:55 pm
Yep. I worked for four years as a much younger man at two schools along Chicago’s North Shore: the now defunct New Trier West and New Trier HS. I don’t envy you! But at least you’re young enough there shouldn’t be any permanent damage:<)
July 25th, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Any really good advice you can give me?!
July 25th, 2012 at 10:24 pm
Absolutely. Whatever you do, do NOT volunteer to drive a mini-bus full of teens across two states on a three-day camping trip if they’ve determined you’re a pushover. Nuff said;<)
July 25th, 2012 at 10:26 pm
Hahahaha. Lucky for me, LUCKY LUCKY FOR ME, I’ve already done that….bahhhhh…I worked at a summer camp for two summers and got to go on adventure trips and hiking trips with teens. I was totally a push-over. It’s in my nature – I need to get tough. Maybe I should start lifting weights.
July 25th, 2012 at 7:09 pm
I love, love, LOVE Newsday Tuesday. Thank you.
July 25th, 2012 at 8:32 pm
I love it too!
July 25th, 2012 at 8:22 pm
ha! must read the literary snob one.
btw, I’m behind, but surprised it didn’t make your posting…are you not following @NPRbooks on the best YA books ever? Lots of scuttle and posts around blog/interland. What say you, YA maven?
July 25th, 2012 at 8:31 pm
The literary snob is great and yes I have! Mentioned it twice I think! I will have to read the list again of who made this rounds cut. Obviously, I will always root Salinger, Harper Lee and Betty Smith. Some of these new titles I’m not so sure about. What about you? Any detestable or wonderful choices?
July 25th, 2012 at 8:32 pm
Ps. I’ve always wanted to use what say you in a sentence. Bravo!
July 25th, 2012 at 9:53 pm
Yikes! You did…my bad and I scanned 2x, alas, I’m too lazy to grab glasses and eyes are tired tonight…I shall blame that!
what say you (it is a pet line of mine…where did it come from, a movie, You’ve Got Mail? perhaps is where it first stuck?)
anyhoo.. so tough, YA wasn’t what it is today when I was young…I’m a HUGE Bradbury fan, though, so 451 & Something Wicked; To Kill A Mockingbird; Little Women(or is that too young?) ~
July 25th, 2012 at 10:16 pm
So, I’m voting for my ten titles now and adding about a hundred books to my to-read list. BAH. I’m never going to read all the books I want to read in this lifetime. Good thing I believe that my after life will be a giant library and I will be able to read books in hours. : ) Obviously, in a comfortable chair.
Bradbury is a MUST. I also love Laurie Halse Anderson (contemporary YA). Little Women is definitely not too young. I read that at….twelve? But I was reading up because I so badly wanted to be a teenager!
Vote and let me know your choices! I will send you mine. Not so sure I will be able to choose out of 325 – geez!
July 25th, 2012 at 10:23 pm
Okay! So I chose:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak, The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger, Go Ask Alice by Anonymous (can’t believe they haven’t figured that one out yet), Harry Potter by JK Rowling, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, The Outsiders by SE Hinton, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler, and Lord of the Flies by William Goldberg.
I think Daniel Handler is the only one I’m not 100% on.