Yeats’ Easter poem sells for whopping sum

Three history profs, $75,000, one exciting race to the finiszzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Moby Dick to become Massachusetts’ state book (I always have to copy and paste “Massachusetts” to be sure I spell it right because as a kid a bunch of us had a joke that ended in the punchline “Mass-of-two-shits”… to this day I have to pause before I say the word, just in case. Especially when I’m in Boston. Hey, we were 11.)

British Library releasing CD of great writers speaking and reading

Gay author banned from addressing students at NB schools addresses same community outside school—-at A CHURCH! Must be United. Go United! (Newsflash to principal: this isn’t a “moral” issue. It’s a basic respect and human rights issue. Calling it a moral issue in order to duck it is a cop out. Shame.)

Baiku: biker poetry (It’s been a good long while since we’ve had a cowboy poet article around here, which in the early days fo Bookninja seemed to be a staple. Where have all the cowboys gone, long time passing?)

Time waster: the iPhone killer (takes a while to load, but things move slowly in Nova Scotia)