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July 8, 2008
It's a big weekend for Potter fans in Dallas as the crowd prepares to gather for Portus 2008. We have plenty of Potter-related items in the hopper, including: -- Live blogging from the event. -- A fun triva quiz. -- Fresh video. And -- your comments! Here's a starter -- if you're a fan, what was the moment when you got hooked on the series? (Several people tell me it was Book 4 that made them truly obsessed.)  Comments (2) Leave comment
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|  E-mail entryThe entry "Portus 2008: Harry Potter heaven coming to Dallas this week" is tagged: Harry Potter , Portus 2008 When I bought my iPod all those years ago (maybe 2005?), I was thinking it would be a nice way to carry the Beatles and Louis Armstrong with me on my commute. I never expected it to be a way to get literary news. But that's a primary function for the little white box these days. The folks at NPR make it easy to suscribe to podcasts of book-centric programs such as Fresh Air, and they even compile a weekly roundup of the week's book stories. My biggest problem is finding enough room -- it seems wrong to delete Miles Davis to allow room for Terry Gross, but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. (And Aura is not such a great album for commuting, anyway. Although if you disagree ... well, we should probably move over to the music blog.) Anyhow, if you're also a fan of books and NPR and podcasts, here's something that might help: The Book Publicity Blog, which provides industry-oriented news and advice, has been compiling a handy weekly roundup of book stories on public radio, Look at all those mentions .... it must make a publicist salivate. But it's an embarrassment of riches for listener/readers. Comments (1) Leave comment
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