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Saturday, November 03, 2007

Longitude Books's Recommended Books on Climate Change

Check out Longitude Books's extensive list of recommended books on climate change. An outstanding resource. One I especially recommend is Elizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes From a Catastrophe. (Yes, of course Longitude Books carries both Miraculous Air and Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion.)
Posted by C.M. Mayo at 6:37 PM
Labels: climate change, Longitude Books, Mexico A Traveler's Literary Companion, Miraculous Air

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ABOUT "MADAM MAYO"

Through narrative we become more human. Truth is beauty. Exploration is infinite.
I write books, essays, poems, and reviews as C.M. Mayo. Latest books are:

THE LAST PRINCE OF THE MEXICAN EMPIRE (Unbridled Books)

"a swashbuckling, riotous good time, befitting the fairy-tale promise of the opening sentence"
Austin American-Statesman

"Mayo’s cultural insights are first-rate, and the glittering, doomed regime comes to life"
Library Journal

MEXICO: A TRAVELER'S LITERARY COMPANION, (Whereabouts Press)
A portrait of a Mexico in the voices of 24 its own contemporary literary writers, many of the works in translation for the first time. Carlos Fuentes, Laura Esquivel, Monica Lavin, Ricardo Elizondo Elizondo & many more.

"This book... may go on to find its place, very naturally, as one of the outstanding contemporary works on this country... "
David Huerta, El Universal, Mexico City

"...will open your eyes, fill you with pleasure and render our perennial "vecinos" a little less "distante"
Los Angeles Times

As featured on National Public Radio Read more...


MIRACULOUS AIR: Journey of a Thousand Miles through Baja California, the Other Mexico
(Milkweed Editions)

"A luminous exploration of Baja California,from its southern tip at Cabo San Lucasto its 'lost city' of Tijuana... [Mayo] takesthe fiction writer's impulse and blends it with the instincts of a journalist to create a work of nonfiction that elides into modern myth"
Los Angeles Times Book Review

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(University of Georgia Press, Flannery O'Connor Award)

-->Read more about all my books, articles, poems, book reviews & etc. on my webpage, www.cmmayo.com
-->Madam Mayo is updated on Mondays and in-between more often than not.
-->Guest-blog posts on Wednesdays-ish. Guest-bloggers include novelists, poets, librarians, documentary filmmakers, Baja buffs, journalists, literary translators, Feng Shui experts, artists, medievalists, and more.
-->Blogroll no longer maintained! Look for a Friday-ish "blogs noted" post.
-->No, I do not read palms. I do not run a brothel. I am not in the Gang of Four! What's with the nom de blogue? One day a poet sent me an e-mail that began, "Dear Madam Mayo," which made my day. Hey, I'm into alliteration. (Click here to read my post about blog titles.)
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MADAM MAYO CELEBRATES WHAT SHE SINCERELY THINKS IS TRES COOL

  • -->Jim Oliver's Healing Music
  • --> A Traveler in Mexico (Rosemary Sullivan)
  • -->Owl visits Torre Mayor
  • -->McKee Story
  • -->The Sunlight Foundation's Party Time Blog
  • -->Pug Discovers Crop Circle in Carpet
  • -->All Hail E.T., Minister of Information
  • -->"Writing and Telepathy"
  • -->11 Cool Beans
  • -->Jill Bolte Taylor's TED Video
  • -->CBK's Magic "Baby Muse"
  • -->The Thousand Mile Song
  • -->Wikipolitics
  • -->Desiree Fairooz's Nonviolence
  • -->Sir Edward James's Las Pozas
  • -->Elephant Art
  • -->John Hossack's Chicago Speech

MADAM MAYO ON BOOKS

  • -->Top 10 Books Read in 2008
  • -->Top 10 Books Read in 2007
  • -->Top 10 Books Read in 2006
  • -->The Holographic Universe
  • -->Empire and Revolution
  • -->Eine Reise nach Mexiko im Jahre 1864
  • --> Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else
  • --> Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
  • -->Midday with Bunuel
  • -->Following the Bloom
  • -->Black Elvis
  • -->Face to Face with the Mexicans
  • -->Court Life from Within
  • --> Sweetness and Light
  • -->Old Georgetown on the Potomac
  • -->Always On
  • --> The Art Crowd
  • -->The Kindle: The Impressive and the Underwhelming
  • -->In Defense of Food
  • --> Born Standing Up
  • -->The Way People Buy and Discuss Books
  • -->Hypnerotomachia Poliphili
  • -->Lord of the Dolls: Voyage in Xochimilco
  • -->Sonic Alchemy
  • -->Around the World With Madam Mayo
  • -->Inside Mexico: Found in Translation
  • -->Book of Hours ~ Libro de horas
  • -->The Happy Booker Goes South of the Border
  • -->A Trio of Mexican Writers

MADAM MAYO'S TIPS ON WRITING

  • -->Ten Tools for the Novel-in-Progress
  • -->For the Novelist's Bookshelf: 12 Books on Craft & Creating
  • -->To All the Many People Who Ask Me to Read Their Manuscripts
  • -->Recommended Writers Conferences (A Short List)
  • -->The 3 Questions I Am Most Frequently Asked About the Writing Business
  • -->Ten Tips for Getting the Most Out of Your Writing Workshop
  • -->Giant Golden Buddha & 364 More 5 Minute Writing Exercises
  • -->Copyediting in the Editing Process
  • -->And over on my webpage, loads more resources for writers...

MADAM MAYO ANSWERS SUNDRY QUESTIONS AS THEY OCCUR TO HER

  • -->How does one find time to blog--- and read blogs?
  • -->What is a litblog?
  • -->Are we nearing the end of the CD?
  • -->What to feed the dog?
  • -->Can one write a poem out of dog names?
  • -->Why does the novel matter?
  • -->Why are artists poor?

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MADAM MAYO ON FILM, YOUTUBERIE & ETC.

  • -->Five Favorite YouTube Videos, 2008
  • -->Five Favorite YouTube Videos, 2007
  • -->Trajan: The Movie Font
  • -->Takagi Masakatsu
  • -->King Corn
  • -->The Future of Food
  • -->Noi Albinoi
  • -->Pug Vid: Madam Mayo's Top 5 Picks

MADAM MAYO ON BLOGGING

  • -->Writers Blogs: updated 4/2008 for ForeWord Magazine on-line
  • -->Gone to the Litblogs: an extensive archive of posts (from pseudo-essay to tufty little thoughtoids ablowin' in the wind), the most popular of which are:
  • -->Writers's Blogs: Best (& Worst) Practices
  • -->5 Lessons Learned About Blogging (So Far)
  • -->Top 10 Writers's Blogs
  • -->Time to Blog & Read Blogs & Everything Else Everywhereallthetime
  • -->To Blog or Not to Blog? That is Not the Question in the Web 2.0 World

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      • The Groadiest News Du Jour
      • Write On! Online
      • American Independent Writers: The Summer Membershi...
      • One Day Dialogue Intensive September 27 @ The Writ...
      • Translating Bhima (Francisco I. Madero)
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      • Blogs Noted
      • Last Prince of the Mexican Empire named a June 200...
      • Time Shadows: City Life
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      • Javier Beristain Iturbide
      • Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Sin...
      • Blog Noted: Teaching in Thimphu
      • Jim Oliver's Healing Music
      • Library Thing Author Chat June 15-28, 2009
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      • Literal & Last Prince in the Consulate General of ...
      • Houston, San Antonio, Austin: Book Tour for The La...
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      • The Book Works in Del Mar and the Bookworks in Alb...
      • largehearted boy: C.M. Mayo Book Notes or, The Pla...
      • William Wirt Calkins, My Great-Great Uncle, Author...
      • The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire: Southern Ca...
      • Northern California Book Tour Schedule for The Las...
      • The Writers Center: C.M. Mayo, Luis Alberto Ambrog...
      • Mexican Cultural Institute of Washington DC: The L...
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      • David Lida on Mexico's Exemplary Response to the S...
      • Cinco de Mayo: It's Pub Date for The Last Prince o...
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      • Road Trip: Review of Best of Contemporary Mexican ...
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      • Agustin de Iturbide y Green (1863-1925)
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