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20 Apr

Poet Olena Kalytiak Davis Talks About Spring, T.S. Eliot, and Wonderoos

To mark National Poetry Month, BTW recently interviewed poet Olena Kalytiak Davis, whose Shattered Sonnets, Love Cards, and Other Off and Back Handed Importunities (Tin House/Bloomsbury) is a Spring 2004 Book Sense Poetry Top Ten Pick.

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15 Apr

Books on the Bluff: The Dominion of a Bookselling Legend

Books on the Bluff

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15 Apr

Off the Beaten Path Brings Petition Campaign Front & Center

The name might be Off the Beaten Path Bookstore, but Leslie Ryan wanted to make sure that the residents of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, didn't have to wander too far to find out about the Campaign for Reader Privacy (CRP). To help promote CRP -- a nationwide grassroots petition drive to raise awareness about the threat to the privacy of bookstore and library records posed by the USA Patriot Act -- the store ran two quarter-page ads in its local newspaper. "It was quite successful," Ryan told BTW in a recent interview.

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15 Apr

Announcing the Winners of the Bacardi Mixers Book Club Sweepstakes

"I'm thrilled. Short of a million bucks, I can't think of a nicer prize," said Sharon O'Driscoll, the consumer grand-prize winner of last year's Bacardi Mixers/Book Sense Book Club Sweepstakes. O'Driscoll entered the sweepstakes at The Clemson Newsstand in Clemson, South Carolina. As the grand-prize winner, O'Driscoll will receive 10 copies of 12 different Book Sense Picks for her reading group as well as a supply of Bacardi Mixers.

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