Mr. O'Brien mentioned his next book is coming out Aug. 1. Be sure to check that one out and some of his others while you are waiting.
In other news ...
*** The ol’ alma mater, Augustana College, is hosting the 45th Annual Dakota Conference on Saturday, April 27. It will include a panel discussion titled: “The First Draft of History” at 8 a.m.
Panelists will include: Chet Brokaw of AP; Noel Hamiel of Yankton and Mitchell papers; Tom Lawrence of Argus, RC and Mitchell papers and formerly of my fantasy baseball league back when stats were kept on paper instead of via computer; and Kevin Woster of the RC Journal.
The ad for this lovefest offers this: History and historians are highly dependent upon the stories filed by the newspaper reporters of a previous era. It is commonly said that the news reports in newspapers are the “first draft of history” because they have such a strong influence on the later interpretation of events. During this panel discussion, four long-serving South Dakota political reporters will each reflect on their more than three decades in the front-line trenches of newspaper reporting and discuss how the profession functioned when they launched their careers, how the industry has evolved, how it has been affected by the internet, and how their output can and should be used to craft successive interpretations of the historical record.
*** This is interesting, from the NYT: Amazon Kindle Singles is a hybrid. First, it is a store within the megastore of Amazon.com, offering a showcase of carefully selected original works of 5,000 to 30,000 words that come from an array of outside publishers as well as from in-house. Most sell for less than $2, and Mr. Blum is the final arbiter of what goes up for sale.
*** Reportedly, this is the Amazon wish list of the one of the BM Bombers.
*** Get ready for 896 glorious pages on the Madame Thatcher.
In other news ...
*** The ol’ alma mater, Augustana College, is hosting the 45th Annual Dakota Conference on Saturday, April 27. It will include a panel discussion titled: “The First Draft of History” at 8 a.m.
Panelists will include: Chet Brokaw of AP; Noel Hamiel of Yankton and Mitchell papers; Tom Lawrence of Argus, RC and Mitchell papers and formerly of my fantasy baseball league back when stats were kept on paper instead of via computer; and Kevin Woster of the RC Journal.
The ad for this lovefest offers this: History and historians are highly dependent upon the stories filed by the newspaper reporters of a previous era. It is commonly said that the news reports in newspapers are the “first draft of history” because they have such a strong influence on the later interpretation of events. During this panel discussion, four long-serving South Dakota political reporters will each reflect on their more than three decades in the front-line trenches of newspaper reporting and discuss how the profession functioned when they launched their careers, how the industry has evolved, how it has been affected by the internet, and how their output can and should be used to craft successive interpretations of the historical record.
*** This is interesting, from the NYT: Amazon Kindle Singles is a hybrid. First, it is a store within the megastore of Amazon.com, offering a showcase of carefully selected original works of 5,000 to 30,000 words that come from an array of outside publishers as well as from in-house. Most sell for less than $2, and Mr. Blum is the final arbiter of what goes up for sale.
*** Reportedly, this is the Amazon wish list of the one of the BM Bombers.
*** Get ready for 896 glorious pages on the Madame Thatcher.
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