Maus: a Survivor's Tale, Part II: And Here My Troubles Began
The second part of Maus is even more moving than the first.
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Oct 15 2009
isn:
0-679-72977-1
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LCSH Week 39: of Bowed and Plucked musicians, not to mention Married men
- Bowed stringed instrument players
- Plucked instrument players
- Cookery (Lotus)
- Husband and wife
- Husbands
- Married men
- Library education
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LCSH Week 38, which is kinda dull
- Child trafficking
- Christmas stories [Not Subd Geog]
- Closed circuit television in police work
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NY Art Book Fair Conference report back
Here is a brief report back on the NY Art Book Fair Conference at which Alycia Sellie, Susan Thomas and I presented.
LCSH Week 37: in which I am puzzled by Christian vacation schools, but glad that LC has finally embraced Conspiracy theories
- Political activity ADD: (May Subd Geog)
- Conspiracy theories
- Escape artists
- Heretics
- Memes
- Christian vacation schools—Exercises, recitations, etc.
- Women political activists
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Status Update, October 2009
In case anyone cares, or maybe just for the record, I'm on a part-time sabbatical this year. I had the option of taking six months off completely or a year off part-time. PT seemed the wiser choice, productivity-wise. Plus we're in transition at Barnard--the College and the Library, so being around a couple days a week seemed like a good idea.
Maus: a Survivor's Tale, Part I: My Father Bleeds History
Sometimes when I'm not excited by the book I'm reading, I can't help but grab something I know I like from my bookshelf. This time is was Maus, Art Spiegelman's graphic biography of his parents' life and times in Poland preceding and during Hitler's reign. The book also tells of Spiegelman's relationship with his difficult father.
reviewdate:
Oct 9 2009
isn:
0-394-74723-2
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Virgin of Bennington, the
I don't know whether to identify this book as a memoir or autobiography. By the title, you'd think it was coming of age in college story, and it's definitely not that. Kathleen Norris writes mostly about her early, post-virgin 20s working at the Academy of American Poets under the direction of Betty Kray. Kray is definitely a subject worth reading and writing about, but I have to admit I was a little annoyed throughout the book that it didn't really deliver what I expected. I should probably get over that.
Quotations:
Betty intended that one of the functions of the Poets House library would be 'to gather fugitive materials such as [small-press books], magazines, chapbooks, and other ephemeral publications,' without which poets and scholars would find it "impossible to re-create the sense of a literary epoch." p.177
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Oct 3 2009
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1-57322-179-1
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LCSH Week 36: of Sexual minorities and Nuns on television
This week on LCSH Watch:
- Bisexual women
- Dairy barns—Odor control
- Domestics in motion pictures
- Male-to-female transsexuals
- Nationalism
- Nuns on television
- Reproductive rights
- Sexual minority women
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Riot Grrrls and Radical Women--and Zines
Event:
Mary Kosut's SUNY Purchase class
Abstract:
It seems Slideshare messes with my Drupal stylesheet, and since I don't have it in me right now to figure out why, I'll just give y'all the link to my slideshow instead of embedding it.