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Showing posts with label mediabistro. Show all posts

27.12.13

Michelangelo's grocery list

It is amazing what mediabistro brings to my day.

via Bibliokept

Kelly McMasters first brought mediabistro to my attention in one of her Paris Review essays. 


19.12.13

Gifts for readers: non-traditional charities

Mediabistro published a list of 10 charities who encourage reading.

When I left New York seven years ago (time does fly) I donated more than 25 boxes of books to Books to Prisoners.

Two young strapping guys showed up, took the boxes with one arm, and carried them away, joyful at the bounty, and it wasn't even

Christmas!

Streetwise ©



So if you have books you aren't reading and want some book shelf, perhaps you'd consider donating to one of these charities.


Science Fiction Museum...in the development stage

According to Wired [via mediabistro], we might have a Science Fiction Museum in Washington, D.C.

Jules Verne's studio © (via Wired)


In the early stages of raising funds.