Author Calls for Balance to Street Lit

Author Tina McElroy Ansa editorializes,

Yes, we must, indeed, care what they read. It is not enough to merely fill our minds with words and distractions and lowest common denominators. In these fragile, turbulent, uneasy times, it is more essential than ever to make sure that we and our children are digesting wisdom and strengths and possibilities and dreams of all kinds. Dreams that lead to the White House as well as the jailhouse. This is no time for one kind of reading, living or thinking.

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It behooves all those folks who decry the hijacking of African-American culture and literature by urban fiction to let their public libraries know that they wish a balance of high-brow, low-brow and everything in between on their bookshelves.

Read more at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution online.

LOL

Yes, kitty, yes you can haz WorldCat! Just click on over to their page. Or, I like to use the Firefox browser feature that let's me switch between Google searches, WorldCat searches, and dictionary searches, all without opening a new page or tab.

Bibliography
You know about the LOL Cats book, right?
The other hot blogger with a new book deal is Jen of Cake Wrecks!
FOUND was one of the first blogs-into-books I knew about.
PostSecret is another good one: book, blog.
Oh, wait, The Gallery of Regrettable Food was from a blog, wasn't it? Maybe not; James Lileks does blog, but I guess the Gallery was more of an online exhibit than a blog.

Last Lecture

Hi all,

This book, "The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch has been making headlines. He is dying of cancer and he has left some words of wisdom for his children. He works at CMU in Pittsburgh and he is inspiring people everywhere. His lecture has been downloaded from YouTube over 10 million times and he was featured on 20/20. The book is a bestseller and I suspect people will come in and ask about it. We do have copies on order. He has moved to VA, click the link to see the video.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ji5_MqicxSo