BNA_Daily | March 1, 2010
Tuesday, March 2nd, is Dr. Seuss’s birthday, and the National Education Association (NEA) invites you to celebrate with Read Across America! Read Across America is an annual event promoted by teachers, librarians, bookstores, politicians, and celebrities across the country to get kids excited about reading. The NEA website and various reading blogs give tons of [...]
BNA_Daily | March 1, 2010
In today’s news, see who made the cut for the PEN/Faulkner short list, find out how to incorporate the classics into your Nintendo gaming schedule, and see why “tattoo” and “Bridget Jones” are in the same sentence.
After considering 350 novels and short story collections, the PEN/Faulkner judges have announced five finalists “that freshly express the [...]
BNA_Daily | March 1, 2010
As the cover and title suggest, Jerome Charyn’s The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson is a foray into the reclusive poet’s private life. Charyn uses his talent as a fiction writer (he’s written 30+ novels) to assume the voice and persona of Emily Dickinson. He tells the story in the first person, including snippets of [...]
