Nonfiction News Archives

“Quite often we work with student researchers in the library building, and we then supplement that work with reference databases”

Mandarin residents are increasingly doing business with the public library at home, at school or from their offices. via Jacksonville.com

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John Cho, left, and Kal Penn as Harold and Kumar run afoul of the authorities, including a dogged government agent played by Rob Corddry, in "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay." Harold and Kumar ... via The Jersey Journal

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“I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude.... Also, of endless books.”

"Mom, there's a lot more to life than reading," my 14-year-old son said as he rushed in from school one afternoon and texted another reading-averse boy down the block. via Christian Science Monitor

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The unfocused, intermittent, and borderline incoherent thoughts of Chris Roberson, a science fiction writer. via Roberson's Interminable Ramble

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“It becomes theatrically important, after you die, what your last few days are like.”

It's just too easy to say that this society has blended genres so completely that there's no difference between what's real and what's make-believe. But a term such as this definitely goes a long way in ... via Jewish Exponent

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Bra Boys is nevertheless intriguing for its insider's perspective of an outsider culture steeped in tradition, male-bonding rituals, and intense localism. via Rotten Tomatoes

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By Dawn Goldsmith Special to The Washington Post Monday, April 14, 2008; Page C08 We in the library business have a peculiar sense of bookish humor. via The Washington Post

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Each week hundreds of people call or visit the San Marcos Public Library to find information. via San Marcos Daily Record

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“Defect". His first win was in 1989.

William Kent Krueger of St. Paul won the genre fiction award for the second year in a row for novels in the same series. His Cork O'Connor thriller "Thunder Bay”

Authors in eight categories and a writer whose book was most popular among readers are among winners of this year's Minnesota Book Awards.It's a repeat honor for three of the authors.University of Minnesota ... via WCCO-TV

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“More children from the fit, less from the unfit - that is the chief issue of birth control.”

There has been much spilled ink over the connection between Darwinian theory and eugenics and Nazi ideology. via Darwinian Fundamentalism

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“Hush-Hush"), or to blow a hole through the page. He's a demon dog, all right, with a bite as sharp as his bark. Other than Curtis Hanson's 1997 elegant page-to-screen translation of Ellroy's novel "L.A. Confidential”

Street Kings Directed by David Ayer James Ellroy, the self-described "demon dog" of American crime fiction, writes in a baroque, pulp prose style that hurtles along the page like a speed freak in a rocket, an ... via International Herald Tribune

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“If I get discouraged, I look at one of those stories, and say that person did it. That person had results, so in time, I'm going to have results, too.”

Kaeli Madill is obsessed with dieting. She subscribes to magazines like Self, Shape and Runner's World for their "I-Lost-40-Pounds" success stories. via EagleTribune.com, North Andover, MA

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Tracy Letts has won the Pulitzer Prize for drama for his brutal yet darkly comic play, "August: Osage County" and Bob Dylan has been awarded a special music citation. via StarTribune

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Friends of the Library Spring Book Sale is bound for Southeast Salem in May. Salem Public Library's volunteer group is putting on the sale May 9 to 11 at the library. via Statesman Journal

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THE FRIENDS of the Monroe Township Library Annual Book and Media Sale will be held April 26-May 2 at the 4 Municipal Plaza library. via Home News Tribune - Central Jersey

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Anderson University will host Thurston Clarke, nationally-known scholar and Robert F. Kennedy biographer, during a free public session at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Reardon Auditorium lobby. via Herald-Bulletin

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Orange City, Iowa - Kathleen Norris, best-selling author of 'Dakota: A Spiritual Geography,' will speak at Northwestern College at 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. April 9. Her presentation, in the Bultman Center gym, is ... via ArgusLeader.com

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