School Library Trades All Of Its Physical Books For Digital

“If I look outside my window,” the school’s headmaster says, “and I see my student reading Chaucer under a tree, it is utterly immaterial to me whether they’re doing so by way of a Kindle or by way of a paperback.” But critics, such as the president of the American Library Association, say that “the issue here is how far [the school] went.”

Rocco Landesman In Peoria (Or: Humble Pie! Yum!)

The NEA chairman’s unflagging ebullience during “a grueling day of arts appreciation” reflects “his natural tendency to play the extrovert…. But it should be remembered that he hasn’t come all this way simply to launch his national cultural crusade, under the NEA slogan he dreamed up: ‘Art Works.’ He’s also here because being off-the-cuff can land you in the soup.”