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Wednesday, October 15th, 2008Aravind Adiga, 33, won the 40th Man Booker prize on Tuesday night for his debut novel, “The White Tiger,” an exploration of India’s class struggle told through the story of a village boy’s journey from Indian village life to entrepreneurial success.
Adiga, who lives in Mumbai, was born in India. He studied at Columbia and Oxford [...]
2008 Nobel Laureate for Literature Announced
Thursday, October 9th, 2008And the award goes to…Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio, whose work defined him as an “author of new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy, explorer of a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization.” To read more about Le Clezio’s life and writing, please visit the Nobel Foundation’s site.
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Don’t Miss the Nobel Prize for Literature!
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008For me, this is so much more exciting than those silly Olympic Games–check out the announcement tomorrow for the winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature.
Watch the live webcast from the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden, on Thursday, October 9, 1:00 p.m. CET, 11:00 a.m. GMT, at the earliest. Following the announcement, an interview [...]
Have you ever been ’sheeped’?
Friday, September 12th, 2008OK–advance discalimer–this is not a post about fraternity hazing.
I read Haruki Murakami’s A Wild Sheep Chase a few months ago and the striking images and unsettling moods evoked by this novel have continued coming to mind ever since. Like one of the characters from the novel who develops a strange obsession with sheep, I can’t [...]
Books, Thieves, Churches and Stupidity
Friday, August 22nd, 2008Yes, they’re all connected in this breaking news story from the Asheville Citizen-Times.
Haywood County Sheriff’s chief detectives continue investigating a series of burglaries Tuesday night (August 19) near the intersection of N.C. 209 and Old Clyde Road in Waynesville, NC. They believe the five break-ins are connected. Thieves targeted three churches and two businesses.
Items stolen [...]
New Issue of BiblioUnbound, including an exclusive interview with Orson Scott Card
Tuesday, July 29th, 2008Greetings Bibliolings:
The latest issue of BiblioUnbound is now available, including an exclusive interview with Orson Scott Card, an article on collecting science fiction pulps and digests, and, what you’ve all been dying to know, the proper use of bookmarks.
Now, take us to your leader. Or, at least point the way to the nearest independent [...]
Top stories from BiblioUnbound’s first year
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008The top 12 BiblioUnbound articles from the past year, covering book collecting, bookselling and more.
More on trashing books…
Tuesday, July 15th, 2008One of my first college writing teachers asked us to do the following exercise: choose a page in the grammar book assigned for the course and write in a page margin the worst thing you’ve ever done, then tear out the margin where you wrote it and throw it away (or eat it, if [...]
New issue of BiblioUnbound is out!
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008The June issue of BiblioUnbound, our customer e-zine, was released today. This month, we focused on the paperback: why we love it, why we hate it, how to collect it and preserve it. It was a really fun issue to put together, and I hope you enjoy it!
Catherine
Editor, BiblioUnbound
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Books and Their Natural Enemies
Monday, June 9th, 2008I recently realized I didn’t know as much as I thought about caring for books. As someone with several rare books, it seemed a good idea to get better informed. While the worst enemy of books is probably humans (ahem, guilty), this discussion is about natural enemies: water, heat, light, gravity, and [...]
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