Last night, for the first time, I was a Book Giver for World Book Night.* It seems an appropriate thing for a librarian of forty years to do, doesn’t it? An estimated half a million free World Book Night paperbacks were given out this year and this librarian gave out twenty. World Book Night is an annual …
Had great fun in my Cass Corridor neighborhood today with University of Michigan students in the “Semester in Detroit” program. I was one of the local speakers at Source Booksellers, a neighborhood indie bookstore. I talked with the students about Charles writing his memoir in the city (a Detroit immigrant story), Border Crossings: Coming of …
I’m excited to be able to offer free copies of Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance by Charles Novacek to 25 attendees of the Public Library Association Conference in Indianapolis, Indiana from March 12-15, 2014. Just follow the simple instructions on the flyer posted below and you’ll win the book for …
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Sandra Novacek, Proprietor of 1021 Press, Detroit, MI will sign copies of her late husband Charles Novacek’s book Border Crossings: Coming of Age in the Czech Resistance at The Next Chapter Bookstore & Bistro on Saturday, March 8, 2014 from 10:00 am – 11:30 am. DETROIT, Mich., March 4, 2014 — Meet …
Today, February 28 is the birthday of French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, born in Perigord, Bordeaux, France in 1533. Montaigne was an influential writer of the French Renaissance, considered the creator of the personal essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his merging of serious intellectual exercises with anecdotes and autobiography. Montaigne influenced …
Watching the spectacular hair-raising sport of ski-jumping in the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics brings to mind the will, strength, and courage of my late husband Charles. By the time he was ten years old he was an experienced ski-jumper. Perhaps no winter sport asks for more raw courage than ski jumping. Charles literally took a …
