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Children’s Storytelling on Sundays
From this Sunday - that's Sunday 6th July - until Sunday 31st August, The Reader Organisation, in association with the Bluecoat's…
New Reader-in-Residence Sets Sail
The Reader Organisation's 'Reading Revolution' is in full force: we have just assigned a Reader-in-Residence to Bibby Line Group, one of one…
Links We Liked for 18 June, 2008
Some links from way back when. I apologise for these being so old, but I've been too busy reading philosopher…
Links We Liked for 4 June 2008
This week The Reader Online celebrates its first birthday. One of our earliest posts featured the startup DailyLit, which delivers…
Imagine… Doris Lessing
Last night, BBC 1 broadcast a tribute programme about Doris Lessing, winner of the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature. Presented…
Readers’ Day at Brindley Arts Centre May 17th, 2008
This coming Saturday (17th May),The Reader Organisation working with the award-winning Brindley Arts Centre in Runcorn, presents another of its highly enjoyable…
Blake Morrison agrees to be Chair of The Reader Organisation Board
Recently, The Reader Organisation has established itself as a company limited by guarantee and is applying for charitable status. This…
Links We Liked for 7th May, 2008 “Shakespeare Edition”
A couple of weeks ago Jen Tomkins wrote a post about 'dumbing down Shakespeare'. It turned out to be one…
‘Dumbing down’ Shakespeare: to be or not to be?
A call from the University's press office at noon on a Friday is not a particularly usual occurrence. 'We're after…
The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists Events
News today from Wirral Libraries that Roger Lyon from BBC Radio Merseyside will be appearing to talk about Robert Tressell's political…
Links We Liked for April 11, 2008
Tony Harrison is one of my favourite poets. His writing is muscular and forceful yet manages also to be moving…
The Rise and Rise of Bibliotherapy
Carly Townsend is a third year English Language and Literature student at the University of Liverpool. The French philosopher Charles…
