The times they have a’changed …
From the White House:
President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama will serve as Honorary Chairs of the 2009 National Book Festival, organized and sponsored by the Library of Congress. Now in its ninth year, this popular event celebrating the joys of reading and lifelong literacy …
Read on and sigh.
The heads-up came from the Joy of Childen’s Literature, for which we are both grateful and envious of our US cousins. A new slogan? ‘All the way with BO and M). C’mon Aussie, C’mon’. (Overseas readers will almost certainly need the hyperlinks here for the popular culture references).
May 29th, 2009 at 5:44 am
Remember when we had a federal government who deeply cared about art and books and literature. Now we have a government who wants to sell Australian publishing down the river so that people can buy cheap McBooks. And these are supposed to be the good(er) guys.
May 29th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Thanks Penni. I repeat,.