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British Actor Stephen Fry performs Greek Myths with a Storyteller’s Perspective: Homer’s The Odyssey Part 2
NOTE: This is the second of three blog posts taking a look at modern translations/retellings of Homer’s The Odyssey – each in more-or-less a different medium – Emily Wilson’s book with a new translation from Ancient Greek, Stephen Fry’s audiobooks presenting … Continue reading
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Who lives? Who dies? Who tells your story? – Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ Part 1
My favorite line from Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical Hamilton: An American Musical comes near the end of the show when George Washington asks the question: “Who lives, who dies, who tells your story?” That inquiry can be applied to so much … Continue reading
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Ralph’s Current Media: Disclosure Day, Postmodern Jukebox, Quick Deductions, and Edward Abbey
Lots of fun items in my media diet this summer including movies, music, video games and old books. Here’s what I’ve been paying particular attention to lately: Steven Spielberg’s new contemporary science fiction movie Disclosure Day is an intriguing and exciting … Continue reading
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Honoring World Poetry Day 2025
In honor of World Poetry Day 2025, here are two of my favorite poems. The first is by West Virginia poet Tom Andrews, who in addition to being a great poet was also a first-generation hemophiliac who died way too … Continue reading
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Iconic “This is Fine” Dog echos a 14th century illuminated manuscript image
How long has the “This is Fine” meme been around? Would you believe the 14th century? You all know the Dog-in-the-Burning-Room “This Is Fine” meme, right? As reported in the LAist blog, Green drew the iconic image as part of … Continue reading
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Tagged Because I can, ch04 Books, ch10 social media, Illuminated manuscript, Secret 4, Seven Secrets, This is Fine
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National Banned Book Week Has a Lot to Observe This Year
Editor’s Note: This week is the American Library Association’s Banned Book Week. The following blog post looks at a history of book challenges in the US and how these efforts have massively escalated in the 2020s. Books are capable of … Continue reading
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What happens when a library burns? Depends on what the books are made of
How big of a book nerd am I? While researching book history this morning, I pulled these three volumes out of my personal library. Here’s some of what I found: Canadian railroad economist Harold Innis wrote one of the most … Continue reading
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When Scholastic Book Fairs Got Segregated (and then Desegregated Again… Maybe)
The Scholastic Book Fair is a long-running rite of passage for K-12 students in the United States when the educational publishing giant sets up big displays of books for sale at schools across the country. For your author, the Scholastic … Continue reading
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99 Great Kids’ Books From the WaPo
Going to take the lazy way out on this and just put up the Twitter thread…. My mother read The Hobbit and many of the Narnia books to me at bedtime as a grade schooler. I loved them for that … Continue reading
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So you want to publish a book…
One question I get asked fairly often is how to go about getting a book published. This can be a complicated question as book publishing can cover a range of issues, but let’s take a look at some of the … Continue reading