Book Questions in Colombia

http://www.eltiempo.com/culturayocio/lecturas/originalesfebrero/el-libro-en-iberoamerica_4772667-1

http://www.revistaarcadia.com/ediciones/51/libros.html

Don't know what a blog is? This is for you

http://codex.wordpress.org/Introduction_to_Blogging

Tonight Special Guest

This evening we'll be visiting Ian McEwan at the Luis Arango:
http://www.lablaa.org/programacion/ver_mas/conferencias/2010/conferencia_ian_mcewan.htm


http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/02/23/090223fa_fact_zalewski

You can also read some of his stories at:
www.newyorker.com

Welcome

For the next few day's we will have an insider's look into the publishing industry. Let's take a qucik look at some of the publications we'll be seeing.

www.eltiempo.com
www.elespectador.com
http://www.librerianorma.com/inicial/inicio_general.aspx
http://www.santillana.com.co/alfaguara/index.php

Try to figure out what audience their writing for and how they try to address their interest.

Perhaps of Interest

http://www.eltiempo.com/blogs/el_tablero/2009/02/colombia-un-pais-de-lectores-p.php

Bookstores and Tommorow's Visit

Please remember your responsibities for this course:

1- Some of you have note been completing blogs or responding to the assigned reading. This must be completed by Friday, latest.

2- You must read the article as assigned by our representative from Norma. I'll resend the calendar with an updated scheduele.

3- Today you must visit the following bookstores: Artes y Letras, Libreria Nacional (whichever is easiest for you), Authors/French Bookstore, and on other of your choosing. Blog your visits tonight, so that I know you've gone.

4- Make sure to bring ID tomorrow. It is imperative to have some form of picture ID or we will not be allowed in.

Friday we'll visit what I consider to be the best at the Gabriel Garcia Marquez Center from the Fondo Cultural.

Salmon Rushdie

In preparation for tonight's visit read something by Rushdie both fiction and non-fiction (some of you have already done this with Sheldon Guenther).

Also
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/21495

http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/features/2008/02/25/080225fi_fiction_rushdie