Archive for the 'New York Times' Category
Author Admits Acclaimed Memoir Is Fantasy
March 3rd, 2008New York Times - “In “Love and Consequences,” a critically acclaimed memoir published last week, Margaret B. Jones wrote about her life as a half-white, half-Native American girl growing up in South Central Los Angeles as a foster child who ran drugs for members of the Bloods, an infamous gang. The author’s biography on the [...]
Stephen King on Pomposity
March 2nd, 2008New York Times - “What do you think? You get social or academic brownie points for deliberately staying out of touch with your own culture?”
Chapter 1 of Duma Key
The NY Times launches TimesMachine
February 25th, 2008Kottke has a link, but I’m getting a “Service Unavailable”. Sad.
I used the Proquest service last week and got an “OMG!!!” from an attorney. Pretty cool!
New York Public Library Acquires a Collection of Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. Documents
November 25th, 2007Read about it in the NYT
E-mail Q&A’s
November 3rd, 2007A bunch of them from the NYT.
Browse The NYT By Subject
October 23rd, 2007Dave’s new tool is incredible. If you read certain sections of the New York Times and that still doesn’t drill it down enough for you, check it out. Ooh, and there’s an OPML feed.
Scoble says: “[T]he problem is that most people won’t understand this cause it looks too simple.”
Behind the NYT Bestsellers List
October 22nd, 2007Clark Hoyt - “The New York Times best-seller list is a powerful and mysterious institution that both reports and drives the sales of books around the nation”
Howl!
October 4th, 2007Patricia Cohen - “‘Howl’ in an Era That Fears Indecency”
More On The New York Times
September 24th, 2007Many questions raised by Barbara Quint.
Two For One Marketing
September 23rd, 2007Steve Lohr - “And he is reaching out to the public to try to give the laptop campaign a boost. The marketing program, to be announced today, is called “Give 1 Get 1,” in which Americans and Canadians can buy two laptops for $399.”
Free is as Free Does
September 18th, 2007Abbie Mulvihill - “I like free”.
Just a reminder that if your local library subscribes to Proquest New York Times Historical, you can access the entire NYT for free. Plus, you can impress your clients with PDFs of really old articles. I used it the other day.
Lotsa Money
August 20th, 2007NYT - “A booming real estate market, combined with a 120-year-old state law that allocates a fixed portion of local taxes to libraries, has created a surplus that has reached into the millions of dollars for some libraries in towns on the Jersey Shore.”
Is Listening Cheating?
August 2nd, 2007NYT - “Janice Raspen, a librarian at an elementary school in Fredericksburg, Va., came clean with her book club a couple years ago. They were discussing “A Fine Balance,” a novel set in India in the 1970s by Rohinton Mistry and an Oprah’s Book Club pick, when she told the group — all fellow teachers [...]
NYT Archives to NYPL
July 25th, 2007NYT - “Disputes about printing confidential national security information have flared in recent years, but this particular letter is dated July 11, 1916, and was sent by Newton Baker, Woodrow Wilson’s secretary of war. It is part of a vast collection of personal letters, financial documents, confidential reports, photographs and more — more than 700,000 [...]
Voice of HP
July 16th, 2007NYT - “A little less than two months ago, Mr. Dale, the veteran Broadway actor turned voice of Harry Potter, finished recording the audio version of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” the seventh and final installment in the colossally successful series by J. K. Rowling…So that means that he knows how it ends.”
What Do Librarians Do?
July 9th, 2007Caveat Lector: “[T]he next time some brainless style reporter shows up to play image games. We say no. We say “you write about what I do at work, or you don’t call me a librarian in your article.”
Best Reaction to Silly NYT Article
July 7th, 2007On Twitter, Jennpb.
Children’s Book Stirs Battle With Single Word
February 17th, 2007Heh!
"The word “scrotum” does not often appear in polite conversation. Or children’s literature, for that matter.
Yet there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky [...]