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Help give away 1,000,000 books on World Book Night!

Help give away 1,000,000 books on World Book Night!

If you love a book, then give it away. Isn’t that how the saying goes?
World Book Night launched in the UK in 2011, with thousands of people handing out copies of paperbacks. This year, it’s taking place in the U.S. too, on April 23, with plans to give away a MILLION books for [...]

Milk + Bookies

Milk + Bookies

In addition to possibly having the best name for a literary charity ever, Milk and Bookies has a worthwhile mission: to bring children books AND to teach children about giving. Says the organization’s site:
At Milk + BookiesTM events, boys and girls are provided the opportunity to select, purchase and inscribe books that are then [...]

Reminder: Dzanc Books Fourth Annual Write-a-Thon Fundraiser Starts Today

Reminder: Dzanc Books Fourth Annual Write-a-Thon Fundraiser Starts Today

Each year Dzanc Books hosts a Write-a-Thon to raise money for their charitable endeavors–The Dzanc Prize, the Dzanc Writer-in-Residence Program, Dzanc Day, and numerous other service-oriented endeavors that put writers in communities and classrooms around the country. This year’s Write-a-Thon starts today and runs through Sunday.
Though there’s still time to participate!
Sponsor a Writer
The easiest way [...]

Lit doing good

Lit doing good

It might be made up, but fiction can still do a lot of very practical good in the world Here are three recent examples:
1. Tornado relief: In the wake of the tornadoes that devastated Alabama in April, author Shiloh Walker pledged to make a donation of $1 to United Way for every comment left [...]

A story with that cardigan?

A story with that cardigan?

In keeping with the shorter nights of winter, and later retail hours of the holiday season, throughout December Anthropologie will offer Bedtime Stories Reading Hour for kids at locations across the country. Now, I’m normally wary of attempts to lure me into stores – but this hits home. I remember an infamous visit to the [...]

Give a kid your favorite book

Give a kid your favorite book

First, thanks to Jeffrey Rotter for bringing this to FWR’s attention. This Saturday, ReadThis hosts Book Drives for NYC Kids and Teens in three locations around New York. Have a book that changed your life when you were 8? I always think of Madeleine L’Engle’s wonderful flights of imagination, A Wrinkle In Time gave me [...]

3rd Annual Dzanc Books Write-a-Thon

3rd Annual Dzanc Books Write-a-Thon

Take a day off to write next week. Or maybe just an afternoon. Either way, you can disconnect for a few hours, put pen to paper or fingers to keyboard, and in the process help raise money for Dzanc Books. Each year Dzanc holds a Write-a-Thon to raise money for their Writer-in-Residence Program and the [...]

Tin House: Buy to Submit; Dzanc: Buy to Donate

Tin House: Buy to Submit; Dzanc: Buy to Donate

Tin House Books has a new way to encourage you to support bookstores. GalleyCat reports:
Between August 1 and November 30, 2010, Tin House Books will accept unsolicited manuscripts with one special condition–the submission must include a receipt that proves the author has purchased a book at a bookstore.
Any manuscript sent without a receipt will [...]

THIS WEEKEND: Haiti Relief at Greenlight Bookstore

THIS WEEKEND: Haiti Relief at Greenlight Bookstore

In my old (and much-missed) neighborhood of Fort Greene in Brooklyn, the fabulous Greenlight Bookstore is doing its part to raise money for Haiti. NYC-based readers, shop at Greenlight today and tomorrow to help! Via the store’s newsletter:
A lot has been given to us at Greenlight Bookstore. It’s high time for us to give [...]

Publishers Send Aid to Haiti

Publishers Send Aid to Haiti

They may be in dire financial straits, but several publishers are reaching out to Haiti anyway. GalleyCat reports that Random House is donating $100,000 to the American Red Cross Haiti Relief Fund and Partners in Health. Its parent corporation, Bertelsmann AG, is adding 100,000 euros, while Time/TIME Inc. is releasing a book on [...]