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A municipal reporter for The Journal News since 1997, Barbara Livingston
Nackman has covered local governments, events and breaking news from many communities. She began her journalism career by writing for bookselling and library publications. As a suburban mother, she made sure her two sons, now 23 and 21, had bookshelves and reading chairs in their rooms‚ and library cards way before they had driver's licenses. Her editors have now found an outlet for all those book-related stories she pitches and her husband hopes she gains an interest in reading historical non-fiction. Well, maybe IF it's about Benjamin Franklin and the Free Library of Philadelphia.
E-mail Barbara Nackman at bnackman@lohud.com
That’s the question many parents will be asking their children this weekend.
And the answer better be ‘yes.’ Students have had months to pour over books from lists that were handed out when school ended in June — that seems a long time ago.
Librarians have reported that there has been a sudden increase of interest [...]
I generally view the discussion of what books should or should not be banned in a very black-and-white way. I usually come down quite hard on not banning books. In fact, those titles usually on a list of commonly banned books often seem quite bland in terms of being offensive, such as Mark Twain’s [...]
“Bartlett’ s Rule” by Chelle Cordero is the August Book of the Month at Origin Books, Art and Coffee in the Nanuet Mall, Nanuet.
“Bartlett’s Rule” is the selected the topic for a book club discussion group at Origin Books Art and Coffee Sunday, Sept. 7 from 1 to 3 p.m. The store [...]
Olympic gold medal superstar Michael Phelps will be writing about his rise to swimmer stardom in a new book from the Free Press/Simon & Schuster, the publisher announced Friday.The Associated Press is reporting that the book will come out in December and will be titled, “Built to Succeed.” Sounds like a holiday favorite to me and sure to [...]
The Get Buggy With It! Library Exhibit, a collection of award-winning art, photography, and creative writing pieces created by students in grades K-8 throughout Westchester County, is on show at the Mt. Pleasant library through August.
These creative expressions are part of the second annual “Get Buggy With It! Bee Creative Contest.” The pieces make [...]
Bookmarks are great inventions, both clever and useful. They are small treasures that hold your place in a book, and if carefully chosen, also remind you of something else in a very pleasant way. I never like to use a scrap of paper to hold my place and find these often fall out.
You never [...]This is clearly the season to catch a good, fun book and pass along some suggestions. So here is a fiction title I saw mentioned in a recent e-mail from the White Plains Public Library. It is about a woman in her 60s (gasp) who takes a chance and finds new happiness in her [...]
The role of a book blog is a curious one and now I know I am not the only one who has given this some thought.
A recent entry on Huffingtonpost.com by Lissa Warren announces that book blogs won’t save books or even replace the ever shrinking book sections of newspapers and magazines with [...]
As the above graphic shows, some new additions to [...]
Stand-up comedian Nick Di Paolo was heard touting a book by Westchester-ite Robert Klein, a fellow comedian with a long-standing reputation for jokes about his Bronx background and his adult life in the suburbs.
The book he recommended — without even being asked for a suggestion — was Klein’s well-received memoir-style tome, “The Amorous [...]
A municipal reporter for The Journal News since 1997, Barbara Livingston Nackman has covered local governments, events and breaking news from many communities. She began her journalism career by writing for bookselling and library publications. As a suburban mother, she made sure her two sons, now 23 and 21, had bookshelves and reading chairs in their rooms and library cards way before they had driver's licenses. Her editors have now found an outlet for all those book-related stories she pitches and her husband hopes she gains an interest in reading historical non-fiction. 
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