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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 edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan talk about bosses. While it’s easy to gripe about bosses, George and Joan take a deeper look and explore the idea that the problem isn’t always just the boss – it can also be the employee and/or the workplace. Are you [...]

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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s resident writer and book maven Michael Cart talks about the writing life.

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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan take a look at some ideas from libraries that are ahead of the curve in developing new cash flows in tough times. You’ll be amazed at the ideas!

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In his latest podcast, Infopeople’s book guy Michael Cart discusses the art (or is it a science?) of biography.

Titles mentioned in this podcast:

Burns, Mary Mehlman. CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND THEIR CREATORS Partridge, Elizabeth. JOHN LENNON: ALL I WANT IS THE TRUTH THIS LAND WAS MADE FOR YOU AND ME: The [...]

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In this edition of Thinking Out Loud, George and Joan discuss (in their own inimitable way) and article that appeared in Time magazine on March 17, 10 Ideas That Will Change the World.

Looking at trends, they agree, makes us look at how we do things and [...]

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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.

Cited in this podcast:

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!

Cited in the [...]

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In this podcast, Michael Cart, Infopeople’s resident book maven, talks about the best books of the year 2011.

Titles and articles mentioned:

Best Books: Ann Patchett. STATE OF WONDER Stephen King. 11/22/63 Robert K. Massie. CATHERINE THE GREAT My favorite: Carol Birch. JAMRACH’S MENAGERIE Review in Booklist, 5/15/2011 George R. R. [...]

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In this podcast, Infopeople’s indefatigable book reviewer Michael Cart looks at the 2011 Nobel Prizewinner for literature, Sweden’s Tomas Tranströmer. He also takes a look at the National Book Awards and the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, and some other odds and ends (a Mister Ed movie?!).

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