Tuesday, February 09, 2010

Marlon James on The Book of Night Women

Marlon James discusses his novel, The Book of Night Women—a very nearly perfect work” about a group of female slaves dabbling in dark power and plotting a revolt against the brutal plantation slavery system in Jamaica. The Book of Night Women has been nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award, an NAACP Image Award, and a Minnesota Book Award.
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Wednesday, February 03, 2010

An Education Nominated for Three Oscars

An Education scored three Oscar nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay (Nick Hornby), Best Actress (Carey Mulligan), and Best Picture. See the full list of nominees and watch the 82nd annual Oscar Awards on Sunday, March 7th.
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Friday, February 05, 2010

The Wall Street Journal on Daniel H. Pink’s Drive

“Daniel Pink is one of the more energetic members of the growing tribe of business writers-speakers-bloggers who, like the ubiquitous Malcolm Gladwell, plunder the work of economists, scientists and psychologists to attack well-established business assumptions. Mr. Pink is known for public presentations in which he delivers a consistently upbeat message: that the miserable age of 20th-century management is over, that the tyranny of organizational charts and spreadsheets is behind us, and that we are now entering more sun-splashed climes, where creativity flourishes and businesses treat employees as human beings, not machine parts…[T]hese lessons are worth repeating, and if more companies feel emboldened to follow Mr. Pink's advice, then so much the better.” more...
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Monday, February 08, 2010

Chicago Sun Times on Nami Mun and Miles From Nowhere

The Chicago Sun Times’ Mary Houlihan catches up with Nami Mun about the experiences from her past that inspired her to write—leaving home at age 13, getting her high school and college diplomas on the same day, devouring the classics, her years as a private investigator, and much more.
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Monday, February 01, 2010

Jami Attenberg's The Melting Season


The Melting Season: Trailer from James Patrick Robinson.
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Thursday, January 07, 2010

Featured Author : Daniel H. Pink

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Daniel H. Pink

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Daniel H. Pink is the author of A Whole New Mind, a long-running New York Times and BusinessWeek bestseller that has been translated into twenty languages. Besides writing two other bestselling books, The Adventures of Johnny Bunko and Free Agent Nation, Pink has contributed to The New York TimesHarvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Wired. He also lectures to corporations, associations, and universities around the world on economic transformation and the new workplace. Pink lives in WashingtonDC, with his family.  He invites readers to e-mail him at dhp@danpink.com. 

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