HAU to publish Kapampangan dictionary, grammar book (Sun Star)
ANGELES CITY -- The publication next month of the English translation of Fray Diego Bergaños twin books Arte de la Lengua Pampanga (Grammar of the Kapampangan Language, published in 1729) and Vocabulario de Pampango (Kapampangan Vocabulary, published in 1732) is a big cultural event that Kapampangans all over are eagerly awaiting....more...Father writes Barrymore pool theory (Daventry Today)
The father of a man found dead in a swimming pool at the home of entertainer Michael Barrymore will next month publish a book about the tragedy....more... Word Down: Book Expo in the Shadow of Print Death (Blogcritics.org)
Book Expo America is always interesting. I just attended my third, which was my first in the shadow of print death. Okay, so 30,000 attended the May 31-June 3 book trade show at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in Manhattan, and, as usual, there were tons of books available for the snatching. But it seemed there were fewer ?big? books being touted, and no matter your position in the ......more... Book reviews for February 15, 2007: "Talyn" by Holly Lisle; "The Navigator" by Eoin McNamee; "The Android?s Dream" by ... (The Davis Enterprise)
Published Feb 16, 2007 - 13:52:06 CST. We all thought spring had come early, but the wet weather has returned. Why not think of this as an opportunity to curl up with a good book?...more... Book Review: Novel explores 'conquest' of East L.A. in late '60s (San Antonio Express-News)
Helena MarÃa Viramontes' new novel, "Their Dogs Came with Them," takes its title from the words of Miguel León-Portilla, who described in his classic work "The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico," the conquest of indigenous Mexicans from the Aztec perspective....more... Book Review: Bio tells tale of Schiff, the Post, U.S. liberalism (San Antonio Express-News)
Dorothy Schiff discarded husbands like yesterday's New York Post. First husband Richard B.W. Hall, a handsome social climber, was her choice for the '20s; they partied and played together until 1932, when she went off to Reno. At 30, she was a financially independent Jewish millionaire with two children and she quickly found a replacement for Dick Hall ? even before her divorce was final. He was ......more... Retired detective hopes his new book helps solve one of N.H.'s coldest cases (The Nashua Telegraph)
MERRIMACK ? In the bedroom of Joseph Horak's Hillsboro home, he sat, every day for a year, hunched over a card table. There, he pounded away on a 1992 Brother typewriter, using just his right index finger to punch the keys. ... - By KAREN LOVETT Telegraph Staff...more... Book Review: Richistan (International Herald Tribune)
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It was bad judgment to invite Daniel Jonah Goldhagen to review The Years of Extermination by Saul Friedlander (Book World, May 13). This magisterial work of scholarship is a narrative that necessarily deals with issues whose interpretations have been controversial among historians of the Holocaust.......more... |