Booksology What is different is the existence of delivery mechanisms that are actively designed to prevent the attention required for serious thinking. Penny Dreadful doesn’t follow you to your bedroom in the middle of the night with vibrating notifications.
Read all about Iacono’s theory on literacy as a design problem and his observations about library habits.
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star of ordinary person Challenge to adapt new topics
I had almost forgotten about the film adaptation of Gabriel Zevin’s Tomorrow and Tomorrow until then. variety It was reported that Daisy Edgar-Jones would be its star. This isn’t her first high-profile book adaptation rodeo, as Edgar-Jones also starred in the adaptation of Sally Rooney’s Normal People. Oscar-winning director Sian Heder is attached to adapt the story of friends who become partners in the video game industry and find themselves in a troubled relationship. codaZevin came on board to direct and write the script based on a draft by himself and screenwriter Mark Bomback. I really enjoyed this book and I’m looking forward to seeing it come to life on screen.
Current situation of black bookstores
phil lewis what i am reading Reported on recent announcements from the National Association of Black Booksellers (NAB2). These include the “State of Black Bookstores” report, which includes data on currently operating Black-owned bookstores and the challenges they face, and the launch of the National Black-owned Bookstore Directory. Read more about these resources, data worth celebrating, and what Black bookstore owners need to achieve success.
Last month, Pastor Jesse Jackson passed away. His legacy and work as a social justice activist is long, and he championed the inclusivity of all marginalized people from an early age. Among his early work was playing an important role in the desegregation movement in public libraries. We don’t often talk about the role that public libraries played in preserving racial justice, but they did. Nor is it enough to connect that racism to contemporary book censorship movements, or to how the erasure of queer voices and voices of people of color is a continuing legacy of maintaining public libraries as spaces of and for white supremacy.
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