The Willits News has more about the Book Juggler (Shelf Awareness,
December 8), the Willits, Calif., store bought by Greta Kanne and Chris
Harper.
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In August 2007, Barnes & Noble plans to open a store in Highland Village, Texas, near Dallas and Fort Worth. The store will be located in the Shops at Highland Village at Highway 407 (Justin Street), FM 2499 and Chinn Chapel.
In January, when the lease runs out, B&N plans to close its store in the Triangle Square mall in Costa Mesa, Calif., according to the Daily Pilot. It will be the third major retail tenant to leave the mall in the past year.
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Last week Borders signed a lease for a 21,000-sq.-ft. location in Queens, N.Y., its first store in that borough of New York City, the New York Sun reported.
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The 2,600-volume Edith Wharton library is to "return" to the Mount, the writer's estate in Lenox, Mass., according to today's New York Times. The estate bought the collection from British bookseller George Ramsden for $2.6 million using an unusual financing scheme. Wharton fans are encouraged to "adopt" tomes for as little as $1,000 and as much as $1 million each.
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The Mystery Writers of America's Kids Love a Mystery program has created a Joan Lowery Nixon Award to honor the late writer and founder of Kids Love a Mystery. Students will be encouraged to write and submit mystery short stories; the winners in two age categories receive $150 each. To clear up any mysteries about the award, go to the MWA Web site.
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Here's a different kind of short story contest story. In its spirit, we quote directly from the Salt Lake Tribune's account. (Jayson Blair, pay attention.)
"Who says plagiarism is always a bad thing?
"The Salt Lake City Library, Community Writing Center and Random House are teaming up to encourage patrons to write short stories using passages taken from work already published.
"The title of the venture, Purloined Passages, is apt: Every phrase in the stories will be stolen from a book on Random House's list of the 100 Best Novels. That's the point. 'No sentence may include your own words,' the rules state.
"The library got the idea from two Utah reporters, Brooke Adams, who writes for The Salt Lake Tribune, and Elaine Jarvik at the Deseret Morning News. They created their own story a couple of years ago using nothing but borrowed phrases from the best-books list, the way musicians sample music. The result, 'The Rearrangement,' was published in 91st Meridian, an online journal of University of Iowa International Writing Program dedicated to experimental writing. (Read their story at http://www.sltrib.com.)
" 'We immediately said yes' to the idea, said Hikmet Loe, a manager at the library's downtown Main Branch. 'It's wacky, it involves books--it involves the 100 best books, which we thought was great.' "
For the rest of "our" story, go to the Salt Lake Tribune site.
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In August 2007, Barnes & Noble plans to open a store in Highland Village, Texas, near Dallas and Fort Worth. The store will be located in the Shops at Highland Village at Highway 407 (Justin Street), FM 2499 and Chinn Chapel.
In January, when the lease runs out, B&N plans to close its store in the Triangle Square mall in Costa Mesa, Calif., according to the Daily Pilot. It will be the third major retail tenant to leave the mall in the past year.
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Last week Borders signed a lease for a 21,000-sq.-ft. location in Queens, N.Y., its first store in that borough of New York City, the New York Sun reported.
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The 2,600-volume Edith Wharton library is to "return" to the Mount, the writer's estate in Lenox, Mass., according to today's New York Times. The estate bought the collection from British bookseller George Ramsden for $2.6 million using an unusual financing scheme. Wharton fans are encouraged to "adopt" tomes for as little as $1,000 and as much as $1 million each.
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The Mystery Writers of America's Kids Love a Mystery program has created a Joan Lowery Nixon Award to honor the late writer and founder of Kids Love a Mystery. Students will be encouraged to write and submit mystery short stories; the winners in two age categories receive $150 each. To clear up any mysteries about the award, go to the MWA Web site.
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Here's a different kind of short story contest story. In its spirit, we quote directly from the Salt Lake Tribune's account. (Jayson Blair, pay attention.)
"Who says plagiarism is always a bad thing?
"The Salt Lake City Library, Community Writing Center and Random House are teaming up to encourage patrons to write short stories using passages taken from work already published.
"The title of the venture, Purloined Passages, is apt: Every phrase in the stories will be stolen from a book on Random House's list of the 100 Best Novels. That's the point. 'No sentence may include your own words,' the rules state.
"The library got the idea from two Utah reporters, Brooke Adams, who writes for The Salt Lake Tribune, and Elaine Jarvik at the Deseret Morning News. They created their own story a couple of years ago using nothing but borrowed phrases from the best-books list, the way musicians sample music. The result, 'The Rearrangement,' was published in 91st Meridian, an online journal of University of Iowa International Writing Program dedicated to experimental writing. (Read their story at http://www.sltrib.com.)
" 'We immediately said yes' to the idea, said Hikmet Loe, a manager at the library's downtown Main Branch. 'It's wacky, it involves books--it involves the 100 best books, which we thought was great.' "
For the rest of "our" story, go to the Salt Lake Tribune site.