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Bluestalking
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I'm a librarian and professional book reviewer as well as a jurist for a couple book awards. Bluestalking is primarily book/author interview/author event related, though occasionally a more personal post makes it through. But generally it's all books all the time.
LATEST ARTICLES ( 176 )
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Visiting Faulkner's Ghost
Funny, when I was in Mississippi I thought it was terribly hot but compared to this week in Chicago, that was nothing. It was hanging out in the high 80s/low 90... Read more
Posted on 03 July 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Sunday Salon: July 1, 2012 The End is Near! And Some Other Stuff.
Welcome to Sunday, as apparently I've made it to yet another one. Still hotter than Hades here, still no appreciable rain, just enough to raise the humidity... Read more
Posted on 01 July 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
Sebastian Barry! Another Award!
Oh, how my heart does soar when he's honored. It's had the opportunity to soar twice in as many weeks, too. First, the Walter Scott Prize for historical... Read more
Posted on 01 July 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Square Books, Oxford, MS: The Past That is Not Past
Square Books is one of the big, legendary American bookstores. It's not because it's all that old - it was established in 1979 - but, rather, for the southern... Read more
Posted on 30 June 2012 BOOKS, DESTINATIONS, SELF EXPRESSION -
Resuming Popular v. Literary Debate, in Brief
Oh, stuff and rot. Got much busier than I'd anticipated and look how much I've left hanging, just over the past week or so. It's not like I have a life outside... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Friday Web Trawl: Literature and Sundry
Some stuff I found just lying around, taking up space. Thought I'd bring it here to see if anyone was interested: Serious artists in very unserious moods: photo... Read more
Posted on 28 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Ulysses - June 27, 2012
Well, then. After watching Frank Delaney's first four podcasts on Ulysses, I'm beginning to see how immense my project will actually be. And that's fine! I don'... Read more
Posted on 27 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Writers: Take Heart!
I'd forgotten all about writer Amanda McKittrick Ros, then came across this gem while I should have been doing something a little productive, i.e. Read more
Posted on 26 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Guardian UK - List of 1000 Novels Everyone Must Read
The fine folks at Guardian.co.uk have gone through the massive work involved in creating one of the most thorough, eclectic and wide-ranging lists of "bucket... Read more
Posted on 25 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Sunday Salon: June 24, 2012. Wot a Week, Wot a Week.
What am I saying... they're all like this. They say the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and getting the same result, yet you still... Read more
Posted on 24 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Beale St., Memphis, TN - A Photographic Retrospective
Bibliosue and I made it back alive from our Booktopia 2012 - Oxford, MS adventure last weekend, as you'll already have gathered. Read more
Posted on 23 June 2012 DESTINATIONS, PHOTOGRAPHY, TRAVEL -
Congo Sanchez, Vol. I
Welcome to what's a really new feature for me: trolling the web for what's new in the world of contemporary music. I'm not totally ignorant. Read more
Posted on 23 June 2012 SELF EXPRESSION -
Friday Web Trawl of Literature and Sundry
Sebastian Barry wins Walter Scott Prize!!! Sebastian Barry! Unbelieveable... How much data is created every minute? Alice Walker refuses to publish The Color... Read more
Posted on 22 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Review: The Red House by Mark Haddon
The Red House by Mark Haddon Doubleday (June 12, 2012) Hardcover: 272 pages $ 25.95 retail Source: Free Review Copy Blurb: The set-up of Mark Haddon's... Read more
Posted on 13 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Preponderance of Pondering: Or, Curiouser and Curiouser
No time to pursue this week, but once I'm home from Booktopia with fellow blogger Bibliosue expect me to run off at the keyboard about this brilliant article... Read more
Posted on 12 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Mission POPULAR.
Coming up at our next Readers Advisory Interest Group meeting our assignment is to read one book (or more) written by an author we've never read. A POPULAR... Read more
Posted on 09 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
Pre-Pub Books - New and Upcoming
Just warning you, some of these will be a torturous wait... Astray by Emma Donoghue, Little, Brown, 388 pp. [October 2012] "The fascinating characters that... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2012 BOOKS -
Daily Photo
transit of venus, at the horizon This was the last photo we were able to get of this once in a lifetime event, just before it dipped behind the trees. And yes,... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2012 CULTURE, PHOTOGRAPHY -
Bloody Hell. Sorry About That. And Joyce. And Sebastian Barry.
I released my first Joyce post prematurely. I meant to hit "DRAFT" and hit "PUBLISH," instead. So, if you've read it already please try to erase it from your... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE -
And There Was Much re-Joyce-ing: Bloomsday 2012
Wow. It's upon us already. Or, it's upon me, I should say. I remember thinking, back in January or so when I vowed this would be My Year of Reading Joyce... Read more
Posted on 06 June 2012 BOOKS, CULTURE