Christina Cappechi was among the crowd of around 50 who attended our event this week with Mignon "Grammar Girl" Fogarty. Although Fogarty is known for her clear and memorable answers to puzzling grammar problems, the audience's questions had a more social bent. Said Cappechi, "Few had grammatical questions. What they didn't know was how to … Continue reading The Perils of Being Right
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iNight of the Guns
Simon & Schuster, publisher of David Carr's memoir Night of the Gun, has gone all out in putting together a promotional website (www.nightofthegun.com) for the book. The book draws on Carr's skills as a reporter (including a stint as editor of the now-defunct Twin Cities Reader) to document his own descent into addiction and his … Continue reading iNight of the Guns
Attention Span
Minnesota Public Radio's Midmorning show is talking with Maggie Jackson, author of Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age. She worries that computers and cell phones and multitasking are making us unable to concentrate on... um... right, the world around us. For the record, Maggie Jackson was in our store in June. … Continue reading Attention Span
Musings from Magers and Quinn 