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Honoring World Poetry Day 2025

Posted on March 21, 2025 by Ralph Hanson

In honor of World Poetry Day 2025, here are two of my favorite poems. The first is by West Virginia poet Tom Andrews, who in addition to being a great poet was also a first-generation hemophiliac who died way too … Continue reading →

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Iconic “This is Fine” Dog echos a 14th century illuminated manuscript image

Posted on November 18, 2024 by Ralph Hanson

How long has the “This is  Fine” meme been around? Would you believe the 14th century? You all know the Dog-in-the-Burning-Room “This Is Fine” meme, right? As reported in the LAist blog, Green drew the iconic image as part of … Continue reading →

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National Banned Book Week Has a Lot to Observe This Year

Posted on September 23, 2024 by Ralph Hanson

Editor’s Note: This week is the American Library Association’s Banned Book Week. The following blog post looks at a history of book challenges in the US and how these efforts have massively escalated in the 2020s. Books are capable of … Continue reading →

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What happens when a library burns? Depends on what the books are made of

Posted on February 7, 2024 by Ralph Hanson

How big of a book nerd am I? While researching book history this morning, I pulled these three volumes out of my personal library. Here’s some of what I found: Canadian railroad economist Harold Innis wrote one of the most … Continue reading →

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When Scholastic Book Fairs Got Segregated (and then Desegregated Again… Maybe)

Posted on January 16, 2024 by Ralph Hanson

The Scholastic Book Fair is a long-running rite of passage for K-12 students in the United States when the educational publishing giant sets up big displays of books for sale at schools across the country. For your author, the Scholastic … Continue reading →

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99 Great Kids’ Books From the WaPo

Posted on December 6, 2022 by Ralph Hanson

Going to take the lazy way out on this and just put up the Twitter thread…. My mother read The Hobbit and many of the Narnia books to me at bedtime as a grade schooler. I loved them for that … Continue reading →

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So you want to publish a book…

Posted on July 8, 2022 by Ralph Hanson

One question I get asked fairly often is how to go about getting a book published. This can be a complicated question as book publishing can cover a range of issues, but let’s take a look at some of the … Continue reading →

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When did I realize I was all-in on e-books?

Posted on February 14, 2022 by Ralph Hanson

Last night. I had previously read and really enjoyed the first two volumes/decades of former Python/travel host Michael Palin’s diaries, but had held off reading the thick third volume, Travelling To Work, for several years.  I mean, the book has literally … Continue reading →

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