Eating Extinct Animals: Feast wins Food Book of the Year
Martin Jones wins Food Book of the Year Award in London
Free OED will Travel to Pasadena
At Book Expo America 2008 in LA, OUP held a raffle to win a free OED. Many enthusiastic attendees assured us they had sturdy a shelf that could hold the voluminous set. Let’s hope Angel Castellanos of Distant Lands, Traveler’s Bookstore & Outfitters in Pasadena, CA actually has a good sturdy bookshelf because he is […]
Understanding Religious Terrorism
Jones teaches us that a little understanding can go a long way.
Sir Walter Scott and Scotland
From The Oxford Guide to Literary Britain and Ireland.
Tony Awards Quiz: Part Two
Answers
The answer’s to this morning’s quiz.
Tony Awards Quiz: Part Two
A Tony Award quiz…
Help Me Write: Short Stories
What are the best American short stories?
Looks Like a Million To Me:
How I Realized that Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s E-Reader Were Exceeding Sales Estimates
Evan Schnittman makes a bold prediction about e-readers.
Book Quotes
A few book quotes.
Talking about girls playing sports
Here’s a quiz: Is it worse for a girl to tear her ACL playing soccer or for a boy to get multiple concussions playing football? Or what about a 9-year-old girl driving a go-cart head-on into a concrete wall, smacking her body into the steering column, hitting her head on pavement and – oops – having her coat catch fire? Is that the worst?
Last Things: Emily Brontë’s Poems
An excerpt from ‘Last Things: Emily Brontë’s Poetry’ by Janet Gezari.
Tony Award Quiz: Part One
Answers
The answers to the quiz from this morning.
Tony Awards Quiz: Part One
A quiz about Tony award winners.
Is Print Dead?
David Perlmutter explores the move from print newspapers to online-only editions.
Who Doesn’t Tony Love?
Who does Tony hate?
An Interview With Komomo
Jennifer got a gleam in her eye – and she told me all about her favourite title ‘A Geishas Journey’. It was a book about young Japanese girl who sets out to master the ancient art of being geisha. I was fascinated about young Ruriko’s transformation from a school girl into the adult geisha, Komomo.