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What’s your favorite bookstore? My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop comes out on November 13th, sharing recommendations from 84 writers.
Published by Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, it features bookstores around the country, including The Strand (New York, NY), Powell`s (Portland, OR) and Porter Square Books (Cambridge, MA). Publishing industry consultant Ronald Rice and “Booksellers Across America” edited the book.
Contributors ranged from John Grisham to Chuck Palahniuk to bookstore owner Ann Patchett. The book also contains illustrations by Leif Parsons, an introduction by Richard Russo and an afterword by Emily St. John Mandel.
You can find all these bookshops and more in our Best Indie Bookstores on Twitter list.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
This week, Workman Publishing is hiring a manager of digital sales and promotions, while Oxford University Press is on the hunt for a new art director. Penguin is seeking a designer for its advertising and promotion department, and Duke University Press is in need of an assistant managing editor. Get the details on these gigs and more below, and check out additional just-posted jobs on mediabistro.com.
For more job listings, go to the Mediabistro job board, and to post a job, visit our employer page. For real-time openings and employment news, follow @MBJobPost.
New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
By: David Elzey,
on 9/10/2009
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How to Start a Band, Book Gigs, and Get Rolling to Rock Stardom by Jessica HarperWorkman Publishing 2009I'm really torn over this book. On the one hand, this book is a perfect tonic for all those girls (like the author) who were told or felt that the world of Rock & Roll and all it has to offer is a secret club populated by boys who insist that "Stairway to Heaven" is be-all, end-all in rock.
Pranks, Tricks & Challenges to Amuse & Annoy Your Friendswritten and drawn by master tricksterSam BartlettWorkman 2008While I recognize that April is National Poetry Month it also happens to be the month that begins with one of my favorite non-holiday holidays: April Fool's Day. Is there anything more delicious than planning and pulling off that perfect prank, that preposterous practical joke?
Oh, I don't know. Don't you think kids who are into RockBand might be moved to do it for real? I get what you mean saying how can you teach something that's by its nature rebellious, but you've got to get the tools somewhere. Maybe embracing the spirit of that in a packaged form leads to more independence later on . . . I used to work at an after-school program that had a Rock
it's a good point and still a tough call for me, rachel. having manipulated the tools of RockBand i know it isn't anything like playing a real instrument, and the satisfaction of seemingly thrashing a solo is quickly frustrating when you pick up the real thing and can't even make a clean chord. kids like the instant gratification that RockBand provides.<br /><br />that said, yes, it
I actually got this book for my daughter and taught it myself. Did you read it, or just skim it? It's not about teaching "rebellion", it's really about encouraging girls to do it for themselves, use music as a way to express themselves, it's encouraging and empowering. How this book looks or seems to you, as an adult man who grew up with permission to rock, is totally