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...Making a list of this kind is never a perfect art and every judge would have regrets about the omission of personal favorites,” Jack wrote. “I guess we were looking for something above and beyond the ‘well-made book?? of which the U.S. has so many.” According to Jack, Iweala’s “persuasive way” of writing about a difficult subject was a major draw for the judges. “Of course it’s a risk?...
...hope that the suited men in Hollywood and New York read through all 300 pages.The two authors criticize the selfishness of the entertainment industry in closely guarding their products. They are obviously not close friends with the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), but one can hope that the book??s abundance of positive examples is enough to convince the RIAA that Soulseek and LimeWire are not creations of the devil.“Wikinomics” is not exactly “boring,” per se. But faithful Facebook stalkers, YouTube watchers and Wikipedia readers...
Last week, for the sake of one word, “The Higher Power of Lucky”—this year’s Newbery Medal-winning children’s book??was banned in many school libraries across the country. Apparently, librarians object because the author employs a word on the first page considered inappropriate for its young audience: “scrotum.” According to the New York Times, the book reads, “Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough...
...their actions are in fact more detrimental to the maturity of children than they are helpful. If award-winning literature is not a valid source from which to build one’s knowledge, it is unclear what is. And ten years old—the age of the book??s heroine—is surely old enough to have developed the ability to cope with a few advanced anatomical terms...
...latest book an “ahistorical” work. In a 90-minute solo appearance at Emerson Hall, Dershowitz extended his public assault on Carter’s book “Palestine: Peace not Apartheid,” which was released in November. He criticized the book??s argument and called Carter’s writing irresponsible, saying that the situation in Israel could not be compared with state-sponsored racism in South Africa, and that blame for instability in the region rested squarely with the Palestinians. “Jimmy Carter was warned in advance...