Sentences with phrase «public conversation about books»

She wrote: ``... the real reason for encouraging novelists to overcome their critical inhibitions is that their contributions help maintain the rigor and vitality of the public conversation about books.»

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You can download e-Books from our public library in Nashville and there's a lot of conversation about how many times the book can be downloaded before the library has to buy it again from the publisher, but I think what's so important to remember, funding's being cut for everything.

If you had them, you could move on to being smart about selecting books (in the case of non-fiction, almost always before they were were completely written), being skilled at developing them, being capable of packaging them attractively, and being managers of another network — of reviewers and broadcast conversation producers and, more recently, bloggers and social megaphones — to bring word of them to the public.

Among the periods she intends to highlight are the years 1924 to 1943, when the notion of a distinct American folk art came into public consciousness through the efforts of the Whitney Studio Club and MoMA director Alfred Barr; the long decade from the late 1960s through the early 1980s that saw both the publication of Roger Cardinal's 1972 book Outsider Art and Jane Livingston and James Beardsley's groundbreaking 1982 show «Black Folk Art in America, 1930 — 1980» at the Corcoran Gallery; and the near present, with its ongoing conversation about how to contextualize vernacular art.

As author of the best - selling book Hold Me Tight, Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Sue Johnson has created for the general public a self - help version of her groundbreaking research about relationships — how to enhance them, how to repair them and how to keep them.