September 1st, 2012
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The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills  The Little Book of Talent is a manual for building a faster brain and a better you. It is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skills—your skills, your kids’ skills, your organization’s skills—in sports, music, art, math, and business. The product of five years of reporting from the world’s greatest talent hotbeds and interviews with successful master coaches, it distills the daunting complexity of skill development into 52 clear, concise directives. Whether you’re age 10 or 100, whether you’re on the sports field or the stage, in the classroom or the corner office, this is an essential guide for anyone who ever asked, “How do I get better?” (photo courtesy of goodreads.com) 

The Little Book of Talent: 52 Tips for Improving Your Skills 

The Little Book of Talent is a manual for building a faster brain and a better you. It is an easy-to-use handbook of scientifically proven, field-tested methods to improve skills—your skills, your kids’ skills, your organization’s skills—in sports, music, art, math, and business. The product of five years of reporting from the world’s greatest talent hotbeds and interviews with successful master coaches, it distills the daunting complexity of skill development into 52 clear, concise directives. Whether you’re age 10 or 100, whether you’re on the sports field or the stage, in the classroom or the corner office, this is an essential guide for anyone who ever asked, “How do I get better?”

(photo courtesy of goodreads.com) 

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August 30th, 2012
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Reuters: Navy SEAL in “material breach” of non-disclousre agreements with Osama bin Laden book

reuters:

Exclusive: Former Navy SEAL in “material breach” of non-disclousre agreements with Osama bin Laden book, according to the Pentagon’s top attorney in a letter obtained by Reuters. 

The Pentagon says it is considering “all remedies legally available” against the former Navy SEAL and all those acting in concert with him. The Pentagon says further public dissemination of the book “will aggravate your breach and violation of your agreements.”

More soon on Reuters.com.

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August 22nd, 2012
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August 22nd, 2012
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Anonymous Navy Seal Releasing Tell-all Account of Bin Ladin Raid

LJ Digital: Interesting. Will most likely be a best-seller. BUT anonymity always leaves room for skepticism. Looking forward to the sources and verification. 

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August 18th, 2012
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Summer Diary

Can you do this with an ebook? 

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August 17th, 2012
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Zoom books: Tumblr, Electric Literature, The New Inquiry, and the Los Angeles Review of Books invite you to celebrate the Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Opening Night! Three top web-based literary publications (and Tumblr super-users) invite you meet your internet friends in person for chatting, drinking, and dancing to kick off the most bookish week in Brooklyn. Music from DJs Abby Klein and Doc Delay and free drink specials enhance the East Coast vs. West Coast faceoff — and everybody wins! Monday 9/17 at 7pm, Public Assembly, 70 N 6th Street, Brooklyn NY. See you there!

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Tumblr, Electric Literature, The New Inquiry, and the Los Angeles Review of Books invite you to celebrate the Brooklyn Book Festival Bookends Opening Night!

Three top web-based literary publications (and Tumblr super-users) invite you meet your internet friends in person for chatting, drinking, and dancing to kick off the most bookish week in Brooklyn. Music from DJs Abby Klein and Doc Delay and free drink specials enhance the East Coast vs. West Coast faceoff — and everybody wins!

Monday 9/17 at 7pm, Public Assembly, 70 N 6th Street, Brooklyn NY. See you there!

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August 14th, 2012
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Zoom teachingliteracy: strandbooks: (Photo by patchworkcompass • Instagram) Making Central Park that much better - The Strand kiosk (located on E. 60th and 5th Ave.)

teachingliteracy:

strandbooks: (Photo by patchworkcompass • Instagram)

Making Central Park that much better - The Strand kiosk (located on E. 60th and 5th Ave.)

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July 21st, 2012
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The Bookless Library

“It has been clear for some time now that this development would pose one of the greatest challenges that modern libraries—from institutions like the NYPL on down—have ever encountered.” 

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July 18th, 2012
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When you read a book on your Kindle, Amazon knows how fast you’re reading, where you got bored, and what you underlined. And publishers are using that data to try to write snappier books.


We talked to WSJ reporter Alexandra Alter about how this works and whether it’s going to make every book more like the Da Vinci Code.

(via onthemedia)

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July 18th, 2012
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eBooks are now the dominant single format of adult fiction

At the same time, net sales revenue from eBooks increased from  from $869 million in 2010 to $2.074 billion in 2011. That’s 15 percent of net revenues for publishers. AppNewser has more about how these numbers have affected the total US book market. 

Read more 

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July 17th, 2012
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[In] a development that even just thirty years ago would have seemed like the most absurd science fiction, there are now far more books available, far more quickly, on the iPhone than in the New York Public Library.

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This technology cannot simply substitute for the great libraries of the present. After all, libraries are not just repositories of books. They are communities, sources of expertise, and homes to lovingly compiled collections that amount to far more than the sum of their individual printed parts. Their physical spaces, especially in grand temples of learning like the NYPL, subtly influence the way that reading and writing takes place in them. And yet it is foolish to think that libraries can remain the same with the new technology on the scene.
Thoughtful and important piece by David A. Bell on the future of libraries. For an essential companion read, see Library: An Unquiet History. (via explore-blog)
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July 16th, 2012
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The week in reading…

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July 14th, 2012
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Zoom The Future of Digital Publishing: A Book You Need to Read on The Street  The former publisher of San Francisco’s indie literary magazine and book press McSweeney’s, along with fellow McSweeney’s veteran Russell Quinn and writers Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett, has created a new form of storytelling: a geo-located mobile serialized story that will launch in late August and run for a year.

The Future of Digital Publishing: A Book You Need to Read on The Street 

The former publisher of San Francisco’s indie literary magazine and book press McSweeney’s, along with fellow McSweeney’s veteran Russell Quinn and writers Matthew Derby and Kevin Moffett, has created a new form of storytelling: a geo-located mobile serialized story that will launch in late August and run for a year.

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July 13th, 2012
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ianbrooks:

Quotable Arts by Evan Robertson / Obvious State

High quality giclée prints available at etsy. Distilling literary quotes from a handful of the masters down to a single graphic representation, Evan captures the raw concept of the sentence and makes it damn purty to look at as well.

(via: fab)

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July 13th, 2012
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UCI Bookstore Is Going Through Some Changes

“At UCI we have our own “transformation” underway. The administration is killing the bookstore. Long posters in the window store are festooned with images of what seem to be anteaters in Transformers costumes.” 

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A blog created by the Literary Journalism Department @ the University of California, Irvine, dedicated to discussions about non-fiction narratives in this ever-evolving era of E-books, E-readers, Blogs, Instapaper, The Atavist, Byliner, Amazon's Kindle Singles and all other new media outlets open to promoting great journalism. LJ Digital is managed by Asst. Prof. Erika Hayasaki and Cleo Tobbi, intern and UCI literary journalism student.

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