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In this podcast, Michael Cart looks at the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winners. While on the topic of book awards, he also makes time for the Diagram Prize (for the year’s oddest book titles), as well as the Hans Christian Andersen Award for children’s literature.

In his latest podcast for Infopeople, Michael Cart looks at past and recent winners of the Michael L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature. The award is sponsored by Booklist, a publication of the American Library Association. This year’s Printz winner was Going Bovine by Lidda Bray.

Guess who was recently censored in New Jersey? Yep, it’s Infopeople’s own book maven Michael Cart. In this podcast, he talks about the experience of having his book Love and Sex: Ten Stories of Truth challenged in a New Jersey high school and discusses other issues regarding book banning and truth-denying.

Cites for this podcast are here, in PDF format.

In this podcast, Infopeople’s book guy Michael Cart indulges his passion for Southern fiction by devoting an entire podcast to North Carolina writer Ron Rash and his remarkable new novel Serena. What a story!

Cites from this podcast are here (in PDF format).

In this podcast, Infopeople’s book maven Michael Cart mourns the loss of legendary author (and recluse) J. D. Salinger and muses about the current age of authorial self-promotion (tell-all memoirs, anyone?).

Cites from this podcast are here (in PDF format).

In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s resident book reviewer, Michael Cart, talks about the curious history of the review and its even more improbable prospects for the future (get out your hankies for this one!). Oh, and welcome back, Kirkus!

Cites from this podcast are here, in PDF format.

In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s unofficial ambassador to the book world, Michael Cart, reports on an official ambassador (you’ll have to listen to find out who it is) and then shifts gears to talk about the world’s first consulting detective — you won’t need to listen to know that was Sherlock Holmes!

A list of cites from this podcast is here, in PDF format.

In this welcoming-in-the-new-year podcast, Michael discusses the top words & phrases of 2009). He also looks at the problems (and trauma) of downsizing, or de-acessorizing book collections. How do you decide what to keep or discard? Michael shares how he does it.

In this podcast, Infopeople’s book guy takes a look at the world of audio and other multmedia-type books. From Simon & Schuster’s “vooks” to Playaway audio books, it’s a brave new world of listening (and reading) out there. Is print dead? You decide (with some help maybe, from Michael!).

Here is a list of cites from the podcast (in PDF format).

In this podcast, Infopeople’s book guy Michael Cart offers a light-hearted salute to the American short story in his latest podcast – at least, he says, that’s his story and he’s stickin’ to it! The book he mentions that he recently had published is How Beautiful the Ordinary: Twelve Stories of Identity. Check it out!

Here is a list of cites mentioned in this podcast.