Banned Author Matt de la Peña Speaks to the Students of Tucson
“Mr. de la Peña donated his fee to buy 240 copies of his books, which he gave to the students. ‘I want to give back what was taken away,’ he told Samantha Neville, a reporter for the school newspaper, The Cactus Chronicle.”
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Photo: Matt de la Peña reads from his book “Mexican WhiteBoy”; Credit: Joshua Lott, the NYT
Definitely want to read that book.
I bought this and about half a dozen of the other books banned by Arizona the other day. (To see a list click here and go to page 116.) I highly encourage others to do the same.
Rescued these from a box on the sidewalk. Harvard Classics, English Poetry Vol 2 (Collins to Fitzgerald) and 3 (Tennyson to Whitman).
Berenstain Bears co-creator Jan Berenstain dies
Jan Berenstain, who with her husband Stan created the Berenstain Bears books that have charmed preschoolers and their parents for 50 years, has died. She was 88.
Mike Berenstain says his mother suffered a severe stroke on Thursday and died Friday without regaining consciousness. She was a longtime resident of Solebury in southeastern Pennsylvania.
The Berestains’ gentle stories of Mama Bear, Papa Bear, Brother Bear and Sister Bear address childhood subjects like coping with new siblings, summer camp and peer pressure.
Stan and Jan Berenstain, both Philadelphia natives, were 18 when they met on their first day at art school in 1941. Stan Berenstain died in 2005.
The first Berenstain Bears book, “The Big Honey Hunt,” was published in 1962. More than 300 titles have been released in 23 languages.
Avi Steinberg, The Paris Review. Checking Out.
A brief history of libraries, librarians and sex in which we learn that “again and again,” in contemporary library-porn lit, “the neglected love life of the librarian is a stand-in for the doomed state of the library generally.”
(via futurejournalismproject)(Source: futurejournalismproject)
I’ve found that finishing books while you’re in school is incredibly difficult. But not impossible. Here are some of my favorites from 2011.
(Source: goodreads.com)
Reading now.
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“I wore no ornament save my wedding ring, a small pair of pearl earbobs, and a green velvet ribbon round the stalk of my neck.” Well, my musical is clearly the fanciest.“Define a competitive equilibrium with taxes.”
Damn. I’m a gay economist and even I wouldn’t go to that musical.
I don’t know, jakke. Urinetown is still one of my favorites, and they thanked Malthus in the curtain call.
I’m not playing this game because all I have is a legal text about producing theater. And a show about royalty pools would suck.
“(which swim with tuna and are often killed when nets are thrown)”
From the chapter on “International Environmental Law” in International Law Frameworks. The next closest book I have is on sexual violence in conflict, so I’m grateful the law book was at the top of my backpack.
Also, hilariously accurate? Yes, I think so.
