Monday Tally is a weekly link round-up of some of my favorite posts discovered over the week. If you have suggestions for Monday Tally, please e-mail sophisticated [dot] dorkiness [at] gmail [dot] com. This week features people who study sleep and some great books for my TBR. Enjoy!
News and Notes
I didn’t get to BEA until Thursday around 1:00, so I don’t have much to say about that other than that the expo is huge, I still got a few cool books and thank goodness Jill (Fizzy Thoughts) was around to help Care and I navigate!
My favorite BEA books were Packing for Mars by Mary Roach, Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself by David Lipsky, The Company Town by Hardy Green, and The Angel of Grozny by Asne Seiestad (thanks to Jill for snagging that one for me!).
This semester I’ve been working with two other students and a professor to put together Corkboard, an online journal of literary journalism. Our first issue went live today and I would love it if you headed over to take a look.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I’m taking a class this semester called Ethics on the Digital Frontier where we’re looking at the way traditional journalism ethics are changing as the media landscape expands and evolves. I’m writing my final paper about blogging ethics, specifically looking at the questions raised for book bloggers regarding the FTC’s recent disclosure guidelines.
I’m so excited to share that I get to be a guest on That’s How I Blog, a show hosted by Nicole of Linus’s Blanket. We’ll be chatting about books and blogging and gossip, starting tonight, March 2 at 8 p.m. CST. Then at the end we’ll talk about Susan Jane Gilman’s memoir Undress Me In the Temple of Heaven!
Thank you to everyone for entering my contest to give away a signed copy of Waiting for Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk. After counting the entries and turning to the random number generator, the winner is…
Jeanne from Necromancy Never Pays!
Congrats Jeanne, and the book is on the way :)
After a bit of a morbid week on the blog (I reviewed The Great Starvation Experiment and The Poisoner’s Handbook), I wanted to post something a little more cheerful today.
If you haven’t read it yet, Esquire’s recent feature of film critic Roger Ebert written by journalist Chris Johnson is just beautiful. I guess it’s a little sad, but it’s also well written, funny, and shows just how powerful a well-done journalistic profile can be. I can only wish to write something this lovely someday.
Hunter S. Thompson is one of those writers a reader seems to either love or hate. I’ve never read Thompson for a number of reasons, but I always felt like I should if I planned to blog about literary journalism extensively.
A few months ago Care (Care’s Online Book Club) said she was starting her own John Cusack Reading Challenge, I was a little surprised to see Thompson’s giant book Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ’72 on that list. I mentioned I wanted to read the book too, and lo-and-behold a mini-read-a-long was born.
Last year and I read and loved Waiting For Columbus by Thomas Trofimuk. About a month ago, the author contacted me and offered to send a signed copy that I could give away here on the blog.
That’s right, I get to have a contest for a hardcover, signed copy of Waiting For Columbus! How exciting is that?
Happy Monday, everyone! I wanted to use today to introduce you to the newest member of my family, my cat Hannah. I adopted Hannah from the Dane County Humane Society on Saturday, and so far things are going really well. She’s a sweet, mellow cat, but she loves to play too. She also loves to stick her head in my books and climb all over me when I read, so that might be an adventure.
