April 12-18, 2009 is National Library Week. Over on Northfield.org, there's a list of library week events at the Northfield Public Library, including my illustrated talk about Jane Austen at 7:00 pm on Thursday, April 16.
In other library news, Library Journal announced today the death of Judith Krug, the director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom since 1967, and the founder of Banned Books Week.
In the Double Minority
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Novelist Philip Roth recently predicted that within twenty-five years,
reading novels will be a “cultic” activity, reserved for an enthusiastic
minority wh...
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