Entries by bronwynr

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Less Equal Than You’d Think

Are women writers underrepresented in our literary landscape? Elaine Showalter, Princeton University Professor Emerita and author of A Jury of Her Peers: American Women Writers from Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx (Knopf) certainly thinks so. On a recent On Public Radio International broadcast, Showalter explained her thoughts: http://adjix.com/39bc

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Today’s Must-Read – Letter to my daughter

Letter to My Daughter by Maya Angelou From the mellifluous voice of a venerable American icon comes her first original collection of writing to be published in ten years, anecdotal vignettes drawn from a compelling life and written in Angelou's erudite prose. Beginning with her childhood, Angelou acknowledges her own inauguration into daughterhood in "Philanthropy," […]

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start right where you are

"Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are." -- Julia Cameron

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Neil Gaiman gives as good as he gets

From Comedy Central: Author Neil Gaiman visited The Colbert Report this past Monday, and talked about his Newbery Medal win for The Graveyard Book. Much like Sherman Alexie’s appearance on the show last October, Gaiman gave as good as he got during the interview with host Stephen Colbert. Watch the clip here.

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Resolution of pictures in powerpoint

What Size Pictures Should I Use? Those of us who include a lot of pictures in slide shows (hopefully everyone in the near future) need to think about the resolution of those pictures. Resolution, in a digital image context, is basically synonymous with quality. The higher your picture’s resolution, the higher its quality—in other words, […]

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20 Years, 20 Million Books

[Via Publisher's Weekly] Twenty years ago this month, Boston pediatricians Barry Zuckerman and Robert Needlman started handing out books at well-baby checkups. Since then Reach Out and Read, the nonprofit organization they founded to provide books for at-risk children between the ages of six months and five years, has given away more than 20 million […]

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Today’s Must-read – The Slap

The Slapby Christos Tsiolkas At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event has a shocking ricochet effect on a group of people, mostly friends, who are directly or indirectly influenced by the event. In this remarkable novel, Christos Tsiolkas turns his unflinching and all-seeing eye on to […]