By Byron Spooner Satan Is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers (IT Books, 2012), the fifties country/gospel music duo, is just plain weird. The book is done up to look like a lurid fifties paperback, right down to the 10 Cent price in the upper-right-hand corner of the artificially-aged front cover.  (It plainly states [...]

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Happy Friday everyone!  Continuing with our Everyone is a Poet series for National Poetry month, enjoy this darling haiku from District 4 Supervisor Carmen Chu.

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At The Readers Review, we believe that everyone is a poet! To celebrate National Poetry Month, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library asked members of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors to write a poem for us–a haiku, limerick or other style of their choice–to help us highlight poetry and literacy and to show off [...]

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Heartbreak-almost everyone’s had one (or two or four).  It’s the worst thing in the world really, the physical pain in the heart region, the unrelenting sadness, the puffy eyes and the feeling of loss.  It can stem from the loss of a lover, friend, death of a family member or countless other reasons, but its [...]

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Celebrate poetry and its vital place in American culture this April during National Poetry Month! In honor of National Poetry Month, The Readers Review  will be publishing interviews and work from some of poetry’s top names such as Friends’ Poet-in-Residence and 2007 SF Poet Laureate Jack Hirschman, bi-weekly poems by some of the Bay Area’s [...]

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Ah March.  It’s a beautiful time of year–the weather begins to warm up, flowers begin to bloom and summer adventures get planned. Not only that, but it’s also National Reading Month! To celebrate, Friends of the San Francisco Public Library  teamed up with the New Charter University to raise funds for the San Francisco Public [...]

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By Byron Spooner I’m plowing through, or trying to plow through, Padgett Powell’s Mrs. Hollingsworth’s Men, a nearly impenetrable short novel involving the above-mentioned Mrs.Hollingsworth and the ghost of Confederate General Nathan Forrest which, I’m telling you right now, I don’t anticipate finishing. Which is really pretty pathetic, when you think about it; I mean [...]

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We are loving this blog, This is What a Librarian Looks Like. It showcases different men and women of the profession and highlights that librarians are as unique as they come!  From the pictured librarian: I’m Tanvi Rastogi, Youth Services Librarian at the Hunterdon County Library in NJ. Armed with a BA in Sociology, I [...]

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We over here at The Readers Review are LOVING the blog, Bookshelf Porn.    No, it’s not really porn, but a blog dedicated to the most beautiful and interesting bookshelves and libraries in the world. Warning: it may inspire new book storage ideas!

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