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HS students honored with journalism awards
June 14, 2013
New principal in Oysterponds has a familiar name
June 13, 2013
Business
Plans to develop EPCAL move forward here, in Albany
June 14, 2013
Southold Town to host small business forum next week
June 13, 2013
Legendary music shop relocates to downtown Riv
June 7, 2013
Community
Southold teen named Strawberry Queen
June 15, 2013
Photos: Hulling Night at the Strawberry Festival
June 15, 2013
Make that the Paul Stoutenburgh Preserve
June 14, 2013
Posts by Poppy Johnson:
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By the Book: When we must go down to the sea
Probably, everybody needs to run away to sea at least once. In the first chapter of Herman Melville’s ‘Moby Dick,’ our narrator, Ishmael, explains it as “a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it...
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By the Book: Novel ways to enjoy communal books
April may well be the cruelest month: Fighting season begins again as the mountain passes thaw in Afghanistan, tornadoes rampage throughout the Midwest, taxes must be paid and we mourn the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes, who both purportedly died April 23, 1616. People in those days had such interesting lives...
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By the Book: Keeping up as the book world changes
Birds do it every year, this spring migrating thing, with its accompanying twittering racket. Public librarians do it once every two years at the Public Library Association conference, this year In Philadelphia. And what are the librarians twittering about this year? They are Twittering, tweeting, Facebooking and blogging about tweeting,...
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Book Column: A novel way of thinking about time
What if books, or novels anyway, are like wristwatches? They tell time. There are Rolexes and Piagets out there among the novels, finely crafted, beautifully designed, precious works of art with precisely jeweled movements. I think of the cogs and springs as the elements of plot, character and description that...
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By the Book: In 2012, broaden your reading horizons
January is the month for resolutions, for fresh starts, for trying to get things right. Mostly we focus on our bodies, trying to lose weight, get fitter, stronger and healthier. Sometimes we focus on getting better organized or being kinder. There is a list from an article in American Songwriter...
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By the Book: Book buying isn’t taking a holiday
I don’t know why people always say “I hate to say I told you so” when it’s perfectly clear that “I told you so” are some of the sweetest words in the language and people love to say them. What I am loving right now is that I told you...
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By the Book: Writers don’t just write; they also talk
One of the best things about going to the New York Library Association conference in Saratoga Springs a few weeks ago was the chance to listen to the writers R. David Lankes, Lewis Lapham and Chris Bohjalian. R. David Lankes is a professor at the Syracuse library school and his books...
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By the Book: What’s occupying writers nowadays
There is a wonderful new website called OccupyWriters.com that has an ever-lengthening alphabetical list of writers who are in support of Occupy Wall Street and a few meditations on the protest by several of them. On the list, each person is identified as the writer or editor of just one...
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By the Book: We may be living in the most peaceful time in the existence of our species.
If numbers and statistics could be made to sing alleluias, then perhaps we could hear the good news trilling out of two new books by distinguished academics, Joshua S. Goldstein’s ‘Winning the War on War: The Decline of Armed Conflict Worldwide’ and Steven Pinker’s ‘The Better Angels of Our Nature:...
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By the Book: Larsson’s take on Strauss-Kahn case?
Men. Women. Power. Money. Sex. Truth. These are the final winding down days of the case of Dominique Strauss-Kahn and the alleged rape of an African hotel maid, and I keep wondering what Stieg Larsson, the journalist, would have had to say. Stieg Larsson was the author of the Millenium...
