{"id":2634,"date":"2007-02-14T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2634"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:26:08","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:26:08","slug":"xoxoxo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2634","title":{"rendered":"XOXOXO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feel the love!<br \/>It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Td922l0NoDQ\" target=\"_blank\">March of the Librarians<\/a>, a goofy little valentine for the bookish amongst us, inspired by the mystical and deep March of the Penguins. Happy V-Day (0r, as a friend greeted me this morning, &#8220;Happy VD!&#8221;), to all of the writers of the books we love, and to all of the librarians who make libraries a great place to visit.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.bestwebbuys.com\/muze\/books\/18\/0375835318.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/>A love letter to prose comes from New York, where writer<a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20070213\/od_nm\/life_laundromat_poetry_dc\" target=\"_blank\"> Emily Rubin<\/a> will be doing readings while people sort their lights and darks. A laundromat seems to be the &#8216;natural element&#8217; of readings, Rubin says. So very New York.<\/p>\n<p>Even graphic novels are feeling the love today. While the phrase &#8216;graphic novel&#8217; seems cutting edge and, well, edgy (even the fricative consonants sound like graphite and tree bark), this latest one profiled in the Guardian is all about&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/departments\/generalfiction\/story\/0,,2012543,00.html?gusrc=rss&#038;feed=10\" target=\"_blank\">a Fluffy bunny<\/a>. No, seriously.<\/p>\n<p>And at last, at LAST! From the <a href=\"http:\/\/dadtalk.typepad.com\/cybils\/2007\/02\/the_2006_cybils.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">Cybils Committee<\/a> comes the little love letter to David Levithan and Rachel Cohn we&#8217;ve all been waiting for. Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day to the Ultimate Urban Fairytale, the fast-paced, foul-mouthed first-true-love story called <a style=\"font-style: italic;\" href=\"http:\/\/readersrants.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/punk-beat-goes-to-infinity-beyond.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nick and Norah&#8217;s Infinite Playlist<\/a>, winner of the 2006 Cybils Award in YA  Fiction (If you&#8217;re wondering how the story can be all of those things at once? Read it). Check out <a href=\"http:\/\/dadtalk.typepad.com\/cybils\/2007\/02\/the_2006_cybils.html#more\" target=\"_blank\">the rest of the winners<\/a> online, and cheers to everyone who played along at home. Though challenging to be sure, this whole experience has been great fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feel the love!It&#8217;s March of the Librarians, a goofy little valentine for the bookish amongst us, inspired by the mystical and deep March of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[61,10],"class_list":["post-2634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cybils-news","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3906,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2634\/revisions\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}