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  Tips for Blogging September 11 Ten Years Later

  18364 readersOver the past few weeks I’ve listened, read, watched, and pondered a quilt of stories around the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001, as the world celebrates/honors/remembers the event 10 years later. There are first hand stories of those who were in the buildings, rescuing people or escaping; stories by watchers, waiters, victims,

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  Lost in Wonder Gets Booked

  1594 readersMonday blues, begone! There's nothing blue about our Facebook users sharing awesome literary events. Here is today's Booked feature. Colette Brooks, author of Lost In Wonder: Imagining Science and Other Mysteries will host a conversation with Alan McGowan, professor of science at Eugene Lang. The event will be at Greenlight Bookstore (Brooklyn, NY) on Thursday, September

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  Huffington Post Wins Pulitzer Prize; Read the eBook

  2865 readersThe seven-year-old Huffington Post has won its first Pulitzer Prize for “Beyond the Battlefield,” a ten-part series about veterans by military correspondent David Wood. The series is also collected in a $4.99 eBook published by The Huffington Post. Here’s more about the eBook: “As HuffPost’s senior military correspondent, David spent nine months speaking with

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  Beach Week Is Booked

  1391 readersOur Facebook readers continue to share upcoming literary events for everyone to enjoy. Check out today's Booked feature. Susan Coll will be reading from her book, Beach Week at Books & Books (Westhampton Beach, NY) on Friday, August 13th at 6pm. The Brooklyn Book Festival will feature events from September 10th to September 12th at various locations.

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  Banned Chinese Writer Liao Yiwu to Appear in New York City

  6647 readersOn September 13th, Chinese writer Liao Yiwu will appear in New York City for a reading, a musical performance and an on-stage interview organized by the Pen American Center. Liao (pictured, via) is a poet, novelist, musician, and documentarian, once dubbed “the Studs Terkel of China.” The event will take place on the night before the official release of

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  Punk Art Poetry & All that Jazz Get Booked

  2390 readersOur Facebook users have shared literary events to all week; here are some in today's Booked feature. Valerie Martinez (pictured) & Silvia Curbelo are reading at Chicago's Jazz Showcase (free admission) on Wednesday, September 15th starting at 6pm. (Chicago, IL) Poetry Magazine presents a Multi-poet Loteria reading with Roddy Lumsden at the Ludington Building on Thursday, September

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  Howling Poor Parents in Brooklyn Get Booked

  1808 readersOur Facebook users have shared a packed weekend's worth of events in today's Booked feature. Howl! Festival starts today and will continue throughout the weekend (September 10th to 12th) at Tompkins Square Park. (New York, NY) The Wooster Group is hosting an event titled "What to Read When You're Poor" with proceeds going to the writing collective,

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  Word of the Day: Propaganda

  2530 readersPropaganda is any kind of information that is spread to help or harm a specific doctrine, system, person, group and so on. Your eBook: Click here to download the Basic English Grammar ebook. Original Post: Word of the Day: Propaganda

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  Festivals, Feasts, and Parties Get Booked

  1848 readersOur Facebook users shared two literary festivals and a party in today's Booked feature. The Second Annual Small Press Festival will be taking place from September 25th to 26th. The event will take place at AIR: Artists Image Resource (Pittsburgh, PA). Come for some wonderful panels and workshops. Words & Music: A Literary Feast will be held

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  The Problem with Citizen Journalism

  3354 readers Want to get a professional journalist fired up? Tell them how much you love citizen journalism and how it’s going to put them out of a job. Sure, it’s a sweeping generalization, but every time I talk mention citizen journalism in a post or tweet, I get some at least one message from a journalist