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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, 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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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s book maven Michael Cart reports on a potpourri of book news, including the publication of romance novelist Nora Roberts’ 200th book, recent book awards, challenged books and last but not least, the phenomenon that is Fifty Shades of Grey.
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In his latest podcast Infopeople’s resident book guy muses about historical fiction (and a bit of non-fiction as well), focusing on some titles from his personal past.
Mentioned in this podcast:
Caro, Robert. The Years of Lyndon Johnson. Costain, Thomas B. The Black Rose. Costain, Thomas B. [...]
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In this eclectic podcast, Infopeople’s bookmeister Michael Cart talks about hip hop lit (aka street lit or urban lit) then segues to, among other things, graphic novels and the always controversial topic of the world of ebook publishing and pricing.
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Brown, Claude. Manchild in the [...]
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In this podcast, Infopeople’s book guy Michael Cart reports on the appointment of America’s new National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, Walter Dean Myers. He also looks at some new words and phrases that entered our vocabulary in 2011, and talks about the great mystery writer Agatha Christie!
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