The Indianapolis Star features an interesting column about Dana Gioia, the Los Angeles-born poet who has dedicated his NEA tenure to getting American’s reading again. Russ Pulliam writes:
With his working-class background in California, Dana Gioia didn’t look destined to lead a national literacy movement. Of Sicilian descent, his father seldom read books. Nor did his [...]
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Gioia: Why having books at home matters
Waterboards and tea cups
Sunday’s NY Times Book Review featured The Dark Side, a new book by Jane Mayer that delves into the Bush Administration’s widespread use of torture as a central tool in the battle against terrorism. Reviewer Adam Brinkley calls The Dark Side “powerful, brilliantly researched and deeply unsettling.”
I lingered over Brinkley’s review this weekend, struck by [...]
On the road with My California
Five California cities — Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Whittier, and Benicia — have embraced My California: Journeys by Great Writers for their One-City, One-Book programs. Folks in the Northern California community of Benicia are reading the anthology right now.
Perhaps you’d care to join them?
On Tuesday, March 18, My California contributor and Sacramento Bee [...]
Yup, the book’s still got legs!
We just learned that the Benicia Public Library has selected My California: Journeys by Great Writers as its community book for 2008.
The Bay Area community of Benicia is the fifth California city to choose the anthology. Librarian Helaine Bowles said her town will be reading My California and hosting events from March 1 to [...]
Whittier Reads My California!
The enthusiastic team at the Whittier Public Library has assembled an impressive calendar of events as the entire community dives into the My California anthology starting TODAY.
Whittier is the fourth community to choose My California as a One City, One Book pick. From the local paper:
(T)his year’s selection - “My California: Journeys by Great [...]
Gioia: Why having books at home matters
Waterboards and tea cups
Sunday’s NY Times Book Review featured The Dark Side, a new book by Jane Mayer that delves into the Bush Administration’s widespread use of torture as a central tool in the battle against terrorism. Reviewer Adam Brinkley calls The Dark Side “powerful, brilliantly researched and deeply unsettling.”
I lingered over Brinkley’s review this weekend, struck by [...]
On the road with My California
Five California cities — Long Beach, Santa Barbara, Sacramento, Whittier, and Benicia — have embraced My California: Journeys by Great Writers for their One-City, One-Book programs. Folks in the Northern California community of Benicia are reading the anthology right now.
Perhaps you’d care to join them?
On Tuesday, March 18, My California contributor and Sacramento Bee [...]
Yup, the book’s still got legs!
We just learned that the Benicia Public Library has selected My California: Journeys by Great Writers as its community book for 2008.
The Bay Area community of Benicia is the fifth California city to choose the anthology. Librarian Helaine Bowles said her town will be reading My California and hosting events from March 1 to [...]
Whittier Reads My California!
The enthusiastic team at the Whittier Public Library has assembled an impressive calendar of events as the entire community dives into the My California anthology starting TODAY.
Whittier is the fourth community to choose My California as a One City, One Book pick. From the local paper:
(T)his year’s selection - “My California: Journeys by Great [...]
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Christina Meldrum, a Bay Area attorney whose book Madapple was just released this month. “In debut novelist Christina Meldrum's mesmerizing literary mystery, 
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