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Atwater Library Poetry Project
One of our mandates for 2010 is to keep an eye out for places where technology and writing interface in meaningful ways. At the Atwater Library and Computer Centre in Montreal (Canada’s oldest lending library!) they’ve been archiving readings for their Poetry Project since 2005. One recent reader was Brent MacLaine reading from Athena Becomes a Swallow. Come inside and have a listen…
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Despite Barthes’ obituary for the author, the cult of authorship persists. Publishers around the world are breathing fresh life into deceased famous authors by posthumously releasing their “lost” works. In 2009, new books by Vladimir Nabokov, Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Lucy Maud Montgomery, and in a delicious twist of irony, Roland Barthes, hit the shelves.
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There are many lit-minded apps and podcasts these days to help us with our seemingly unquenchable thirst to carry all manner of media with us wherever we go. Few of these outlets are as steadfast in their desire to have you only connect via portable device as CellStories. This story-a-day page can only be read on your iPhone, iTouch or similar carry-along cellular doohickeys. Take a look inside for their whys and hows.
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Mixtape: 10 Best Songs About Libraries and Librarians»This is for those bookish music fans in the house. Flavorwire has answered a challenge put before them to come up with a 10 song playlist featuring songs about libraries and librarians. It’s a pretty diverse line-up featuring everything from Beach Boys to My Morning Jacket to Frank Zappa. And the best part of this is you don’t need a library card to check these out.
Happenings
The Judge a 2009 Book by Its Cover Competition»- Eligibility: the novel must have been written by an Atlantic Canadian author, and the book (or version thereof) must have been released in 2009.
- Salty Ink picked the longlist, the general public will vote for the month of February to create a shortlist of three, and a panel will choose a winner in March of 2010.
- For the month of February, voting is open to the general book-loving public. You can only vote once, but you can vote for up to 3 books
