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Read Street is on facebook. Become a fan, and tell us about what you want to see. And if you're not on Facebook yet, (Dave, I'm looking at you), join in the fun. Peer pressure ...
Also, this week's best haiku (I'm partial to robots, but I guess book-themed poetry is also appropriate) earns themselves a book. What? Seventeenth-century Japanese poetry form is totally futuristic!
If I receive no haikus, I'm keeping the thing, which also makes me happy. Good luck!
All you need to know about the macabre master including Poe-themed events, photos, video and a trivia quiz.
While she always preferred The Hardy Boys to Nancy Drew, Nancy Knight grew up reading nearly everything she could get her hands on, including a probably unhealthy amount of R.L. Stine and Christopher Pike, with the obligatory Jane Austen thrown in. She'll still read just about anything you put in front of her, especially the funny or weird. She lives in the city with her books, cat and drum set.
Dave Rosenthal came to The Baltimore Sun as a business reporter in 1987 and now is an assistant managing editor and Sunday editor. He reads a wide range of books (but never as many as he'd like), usually alternating between non-fiction and fiction. Some all-time favorites: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole; Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery; and anything by Calvin Trillin or John McPhee. He belongs to a book club with a Jewish theme. 
Comments
Ok, I'm really bad a poetry, but I figured I'd put up my cheesy haiku ... after all, it COULD win me a book!
Read a book to live.
Travel in time or
place without moving.
Experiences abound.
Open a book. Live.
Yeah, like I said, cheesy, but it IS a haiku!
Posted by: Heather J. | June 30, 2008 1:48 PM
And here, I offer my own masterpiece:
If robots could read
would books in binary code
become best-sellers?
Posted by: Nancy | June 30, 2008 6:24 PM
searing summer sand
footprints brimmed with salty tide
escape to Read Street
Posted by: Hokku Kireji | June 30, 2008 8:15 PM
Nancy sits enrapt,
a tale of robots warring,
turns page upon page.
Posted by: Dave 2.0 (Facebook-equipped) | June 30, 2008 9:47 PM
you can find it all,
the past, present and future,
robots too, in books
Posted by: Michelle Johnston | July 1, 2008 3:08 AM
green leaves burst outward
deckled edges remind me
read your summer books
Posted by: Thomas Bechtold | July 1, 2008 11:41 AM
electronics out
a victory soon for me
free book will be mine
Forget the 4th wall I want a free book.
Posted by: Pat | July 1, 2008 4:22 PM