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I have been helping produce Infopeople webinars for several years, and have listened to some great presentations. But something amazing happened recently. This May, San Francisco Public Library’s Karen Strauss and Leah Esguerra presented two webinars on Handling Challenging Situations: What Do I do Now? (Here is Part 1 [...]
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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s book maven Michael Cart talks about the fine art of the essay.
Mentioned in this podcast: Chris Baldick’s The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms; Joyce Carol Oates and Robert Atwan, eds. The Best American Essays of the Century; Gore Vidal’s United States: Essays 1992-2000 and The Last Empire. Essays 1992-2000; [...]
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LibraryScienceList.com recently came out with a post on the most social media friendly state libraries for 2013. The good news? California ranked 12th on the list. The bad news? California ranked 12th on the list. You can read all about the list and the libraries’ rankings here.
What exactly did they [...]
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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s resident book reviewer Michael Cart talks about a new book by Emily Bazelon called Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy. What are the best ways to defeat bullying? Not surprisingly, developing a sense of [...]
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In his latest podcast, Michael Cart, Infopeople’s book reviewer par excellence, gives an historical overview of the field of adult books for young adults. Oh, and he also has a new book of his own that recently came out: Cart’s Top 200 Adult Books for Young Adults: Two Decades [...]
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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s book guy, Michael Cart, talks about the bestsellers of 2012 and the current state of e-book reading … and a bonus bit about Walt Kelly and Pogo!
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In his first podcast of the new year, Infopeople’s book maven Michael Cart reports on the retirement of celebrated novelist Philip Roth and muses about favorite words.
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In this holiday-ish themed podcast, Infopeople’s book guy Michael Cart talks about the best books of 2012 and takes a sentimental look at (and reads an excerpt from) one of his favorite holiday books.
Mentioned: the phenomenon of E.L. James’ Fifty Shades trilogy, Edward Streeter’s Merry Christmas Mr. Baxter, Hilary Mantel’s [...]
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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s bookmeister extraordinaire Michael Cart talks about a relatively new category of commercial fiction known as “new adult” fiction. But as he points out, this new genre has a lot of the same characteristics as another older genre: crossover books. Coincidence? Michael thinks not.
Some examples of [...]
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In his latest podcast, Michael Cart talks about the winner of the 2012 Nobel Prize for Literature, Chinese author Mo Yan. He also discusses the 2012 National Book Award nominees and takes a look at what’s happening Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling (hint: her new book, The [...]
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