| First authors fair draws crowds to Elgin | | Posted Monday, January 29, 2007 12:47:06 PM by Blog57 Team | | ELGIN -- It was local author George Rawlinson's personal invitation to the Elgin Authors Fair that got Schaumburg author Karen Kruse's attention. A friend of a friend told Rawlinson that Kruse's book -- about the Chicago Engine 78 firehouse next to Wrigley Field -- was "awesome" and that she had to be invited to the first-ever event, Kruse said. "This has been unbelievable," Kruse said near the tail end of the afternoon event, held Sunday at Elgin's Prairie Rock Chophouse. "It has been good for book sales." .... | |
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| | | Pair mount safety talk | | Posted Friday, January 05, 2007 2:47:55 PM by Blog57 Team | | TWO top mountaineering instructors and authors are to present a winter safety lecture. Stuart Johnston and Pete Hill will provide top tips and good practice on staying safe in the Scottish mountains this winter. The pair will be at the Tiso Edinburgh Outdoor Experience shop on Commercial Street, Leith on Monday. Tickets cost £3 in store or at www.tiso.com This article: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=23182007 Last updated: 05-Jan-07 12:10 GMT .... | |
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| | | Area authors to sign works at book fair | | Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 10:49:32 PM by Blog57 Team | | SYLVA - Area authors will sign their works at the third annual Great Smoky Mountain Book Fair on Nov. 18 at the Christian Life Center at the Sylva First United Methodist Church. This fundraiser for the Jackson County Library Building Fund is sponsored by City Lights bookstore, The Friends of the Jackson County Library and the Western Carolina University Honors College. More than 50 authors will meet the public and autograph books. Some will give public readings including George and Elizabeth Ellison (10 a.m.), Helen Moore (10:30 a.m.) Ron Rash (11 a.m.), Michael Beadle (11:30 a.m.) Kathryn Stripling Byer, North Carolina Poet Laureate and novelist and poet Darnell Arnoult (noon), Citizen-Times columnist and author Susan Reinhardt (1 p.m.), and Mary Jane Queen (2 p.m.). .... | |
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| | | Authors of horror works to be honored | | Posted Saturday, October 28, 2006 6:48:55 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Glen Avon Library will honor authors of the macabre with "Monsters, Myths and Madness" during a weeklong Day of the Dead celebration. Authors of "Frankenstein," "Dracula," "The Phantom of the Opera," "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," "Psycho," "The Invisible Man," "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Raven" will be honored at the event. The event is from Saturday through Nov. 3. Assemblage art and a combination of video, music and lighting will make up some of the displays celebrating the authors. Day of the Dead celebrations originated in Latino culture, and have come to be used as tools of expression, said Shirley Wible, youth director at the library. "There's still a lot of hesitancy across the board to take children or teens to some of these Day of the Dead celebrations and displays, but it is becoming quite an artistic expression for artists," she said.... | |
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| | | Literary accolade for medical authors | | Posted Wednesday, October 18, 2006 10:48:02 PM by Blog57 Team | | TWO Barnstaple consultants have put their knowledge on paper and been rewarded with a prestigious medical literary accolade by the University of London. John Riddington-Young and John Bennett, both Ear, Nose and Throat Consultants at North Devon District Hospital, helped win the George Davey Howells Prize 2005 for their chapters in a medical book.The honour carries huge weight in medical circles and goes to those who have made the most significant contribution to medical publishing in that year.The book is entitled Ear, Nose and Throat Mirrored in Medicine and Arts and it looks at ENT in a wider context through the ages and reflected in art and society.It is accredited to authors Pirsig, Willemot and Weir, but contains 10 chapters, one of which was written by Mr Riddington-Young on syphilis medicine and another by Mr Bennett entitled "Neck Wounds in Greek Art."The two consultants are clearly delighted their work has been nationally recognised."We were so amazed that anybody outside London and from a small hospital such as Barnstaple, could have ever won anything," said Mr Bennett."Because we've known each other for around 30 years we've spent a lot of spare time working on projects, but it is even more difficult in this area to do such things."So we're even more proud of ourselves and pleased we have that recognition."During their long friendship the pair have written both medical papers and a textbook.... | |
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| | | Floating research in cyberspace | | Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 12:48:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | SCIENTISTS frustrated by the iron grip that academic journals hold over their research now can pursue another path to fame by taking their research straight to the public online. Instead of having a group of hand-picked scholars review research in secret before publication, a growing number of internet-based journals are publishing studies with little or no scrutiny by the authors' peers. It's then up to rank-and-file researchers to debate the value of the work in cyberspace. The web journals are threatening to turn on its head the traditional peer-review system that for decades has been the established way to pick apart research before it's made public. Next month, the San Francisco-based nonprofit Public Library of Science will launch its first open peer-reviewed journal called PLoS ONE, focusing on science and medicine.... | |
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| | | Google subpoenas Yahoo! and MS in library battle | | Posted Monday, October 09, 2006 6:47:22 PM by Blog57 Team | | While publishers and authors are taking Google to court over its programme to digitise the content of six large libraries, the Web search engine giant has said it will subpoena competitors, Yahoo and Microsoft, for information relating to their own book scanning operations, as part of the case. This is according to The Register, reporting on the latest development in Google's ambitious plan to digitise the libraries of four US universities, Oxford university library and the New York Public Library. Chinese hackers hit US Commerce Department The US Federal Government's Commerce Department admitted on Friday that serious attacks on its computers by hackers have forced the bureau responsible for granting export licenses to lock down Internet access for more than a month.... | |
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| | | Literary Arts to recognize Oregon authors' achievements | | Posted Saturday, September 30, 2006 2:52:09 PM by Blog57 Team | | Literary Arts, a statewide nonprofit that promotes language and literature, will honor Ursula K. Le Guin, Paulann Petersen and John Monteverde at the 20th Annual Oregon Book Awards, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Dec. 1. The Oregon Book Awards are sponsored by the Oregon Cultural Trust, along with many other additional supporters, and will be held at the Portland Art Museum, 1119 SW Park Ave., Portland. National Book Award winner Barry Lopez, another Oregon author, will serve as master of ceremonies. Literary Arts supports and celebrates Oregon writers and publishers. The group reaches more than 12,000 writers, readers, teachers and students each year. In addition to recognizing Oregon authors in several genres, Literary Arts notes individual contributions with three special awards.... | |
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| | | O'Connor Short Story Festival opens in Cork | | Posted Wednesday, September 20, 2006 10:47:47 PM by Blog57 Team | | The Frank O'Connor International Festival of the Short Story opens tonight, Wednesday 20 September, at Triskel in Cork with readings from Cork authors Cnal Creedon, Alannah Hopkin and Mary Leland. The festival will run until Sunday, 24 September, ending with the announcement of the 2006 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award winner. The €35,000 award is the world's richest prize for the short story form and was established last year in memory of the late Frank O'Connor, Cork native and one of the world's most renowned short story writers. .... | |
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| | | UNM Press Authors Selected as Finalists for Award | | Posted Thursday, September 07, 2006 12:47:36 PM by Blog57 Team | | Three UNM Press authors were recently chosen as finalists for the Women Writing the West's Willa Award. In the fiction category UNM Press finalists include both Sharon Niederman, author of the novel of generations set in New Mexico, Return to Abo, and Paula Paul, author of Crazy Quilt, a story of a woman's reawakening after breast cancer. In the poetry category, Albuquerque naturalist and artist Mary Beath was selected as a finalist for her book Refuge of Whirling Light, which also won a Wrangler Award from the Western Heritage Association. The Willa Awards annually recognize outstanding literature featuring women's stories set in the West. This year's honorees will receive their awards at a formal ceremony at the twelfth-annual Women Writing the West conference in Colorado Springs, October 21.... | |
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