Archive for the ‘Media’ Category
Monday, June 1st, 2009
One of the traumas of moving to an eReader such as an Amazon Kindle is that you have no more books to display on your bookshelves. Bookshelves can be a trauma in their own right, as my friend Lee Wochner describes here. But the prospect of not having any books ...
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Friday, May 29th, 2009
I couldn't understand it, as soon as I started to thank my third grade teacher, I was applauded off the stage...
It was a fun event, replete with interesting anthropological studies of authors, publicists and various posses and hangers-on. The food and drinks were actually top rate, and the diversity of authors' ...
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Thursday, May 21st, 2009
How The World Works, one of the books I wrote last year, won a 2009 IPPY silver medal.
There were 4,090 entrants for all categories in the awards. How The World Works tied for second place in its category, Juvenile-Teen-Young Adult (Y/A) Non-Fiction.
The awards ceremony is in New York City on ...
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Wednesday, June 23rd, 2004
June 23, 2004
I just read the newspaper for the first time in over six weeks.
That may not seem like too big of a deal, but I’ve been reading the paper every day there wasone available since I started my first paper route when I was 10. That’s 37 years of ...
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