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Kes: This book is available to blind readers through Bookshare.org, as is a modern short story collection loosely based upon Ovid's _Metamorphoses_, Kate Atkinson's highly enjoyable _Not the End of the World_
review at
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article861914.ece
review at
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article861914.ece
From an article by Katharine Whittemore, Globe Correspondent November 22, 2011
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When the Occupy Wall Street protesters' People's Library at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan was taken apart by police and sanitation workers before dawn
last Tuesday - many of its more than 5,000 books chucked into dumpsters - the American Library Association did not take it sitting down. The dissolution
of a library is unacceptable,' the ALA said in a statement of support. Libraries serve as the cornerstone of our democracy and must be safeguarded.
At the Occupy Boston encampment in Dewey Square, residents and visitors are mindful that another cornerstone will need safeguarding if events echo New
York. Here, the Audre Lorde-Howard Zinn Library fits snugly into one drab green canvas military tent, straight out of M*A*S*H, with boxes of donated books
stacked outside. Inside the 11-by-11-foot space, light pours cozily from several metal reading lamps clamped onto rickety shelves and a string of Christmas
lights. More than 1,000 titles wait to be borrowed, including "Affluenza,' "Che Guevara Reader,' "The Shock Doctrine,' by Naomi Klein, and an entire section
(i.e., milk crate) devoted to Zinn, the late Boston University historian and leftist author.
...
Books are crucial to a democracy,' says Stephanie Fail, a journalism student at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a resident here in Dewey Square.
Books make you quiet. They make you listen. Brendan Allen, 20, and his friend Matthew Hicks, 21, gravitate toward fiction (the sections are delineated
by yellow Post-it notes). They are "homeless but living here for now,' says Allen. Hicks chooses "Best American Short Stories,' edited by Ann Beattie.
Then he spots a fat copy of "The Hobbit,' and urges Allen to take it: "I've read 'The Hobbit' like five times, bro!
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Also check out
MIT Team Works To Winterize Occupy Boston
BY SACHA PFEIFFER AND LYNN JOLICOEUR
Nov 17, 2011
http://www.wbur.org/2011/11/17/occupy-boston-winterization
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When the Occupy Wall Street protesters' People's Library at Zuccotti Park in Lower Manhattan was taken apart by police and sanitation workers before dawn
last Tuesday - many of its more than 5,000 books chucked into dumpsters - the American Library Association did not take it sitting down. The dissolution
of a library is unacceptable,' the ALA said in a statement of support. Libraries serve as the cornerstone of our democracy and must be safeguarded.
At the Occupy Boston encampment in Dewey Square, residents and visitors are mindful that another cornerstone will need safeguarding if events echo New
York. Here, the Audre Lorde-Howard Zinn Library fits snugly into one drab green canvas military tent, straight out of M*A*S*H, with boxes of donated books
stacked outside. Inside the 11-by-11-foot space, light pours cozily from several metal reading lamps clamped onto rickety shelves and a string of Christmas
lights. More than 1,000 titles wait to be borrowed, including "Affluenza,' "Che Guevara Reader,' "The Shock Doctrine,' by Naomi Klein, and an entire section
(i.e., milk crate) devoted to Zinn, the late Boston University historian and leftist author.
...
Books are crucial to a democracy,' says Stephanie Fail, a journalism student at the University of Massachusetts Boston and a resident here in Dewey Square.
Books make you quiet. They make you listen. Brendan Allen, 20, and his friend Matthew Hicks, 21, gravitate toward fiction (the sections are delineated
by yellow Post-it notes). They are "homeless but living here for now,' says Allen. Hicks chooses "Best American Short Stories,' edited by Ann Beattie.
Then he spots a fat copy of "The Hobbit,' and urges Allen to take it: "I've read 'The Hobbit' like five times, bro!
block quote end
Also check out
MIT Team Works To Winterize Occupy Boston
BY SACHA PFEIFFER AND LYNN JOLICOEUR
Nov 17, 2011
http://www.wbur.org/2011/11/17/occupy-boston-winterization
