Marilyn Johnson | Autore

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Marilyn Johnson is a former editor and writer for Life, Esquire, and Outside magazines. She is the author of The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries, This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All, and Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists mostra altro and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble. Both The Dead Beat and This Book Is Overdue! received Washington Irving Book Awards. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra meno

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This Book is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All (2010) 2,011 copie

The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the Perverse Pleasures of Obituaries (2006) 792 copie

Lives in Ruins: Archaeologists and the Seductive Lure of Human Rubble (2014) 380 copie

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2010 (24) archaeologists (14) Archeologia (77) Archivio (13) Biblioteca (54) bibliotecari (222) biblioteche (230) Biblioteconomia (76) Biografia (20) Blog (12) cybrarians (28) da leggere (214) EBook (15) essere bibliotecario (65) Giornalismo (54) information science (26) Informazione (24) Internet (22) kindle (13) letto (31) Letto nel 2010 (12) Library 2.0 (15) library and information science (14) Libri (51) libri sui libri (57) LIS (12) Morte (77) NF (14) non letto (14) obituaries (111) quotidiani (24) Saggistica (455) Scienza (19) Scrittura (24) Second Life (19) Sociologia (27) Storia (50) Tecnologia (54) Umorismo (34) USA PATRIOT Act (19)

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Informazioni generali

Data di nascita: 1954-08-11
Sesso: female
Nazionalità: USA
Luogo di nascita: St. Louis, Missouri, USA

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Lives in ruins : archaeologists and the seductive… di Marilyn Johnson

A sampler book. Enjoyed the parts on forensic anthropology and modern day "monuments men" particularly

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cspiwak | 20 altre recensioni | Mar 6, 2024 |

The Dead Beat: Lost Souls, Lucky Stiffs, and the… di Marilyn Johnson

Former editor of Esquire and Life staffer, Johnson pursues the people behind one of her interests, reading newspaper obits. She meets with several of the most followed obit writers in NYC and London, and attends an obit writers convention in New Mexico. She studies the various styles of obit by newspapers big and small, and looks at what sets the great obit apart from the standard. She discusses the obits of the famous and great obits written about the non-famous, and talks to writers who took on the post-9/11 obits.
Published in 2006, this is a study of a particular type of writing, and it involves more travel and humor than you'd likely expect. One of those books that sent me googling people mentioned.… (altro)

½

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mstrust | 25 altre recensioni | Oct 6, 2022 |

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians… di marilyn johnson

nice book

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muhammadali_lis | 111 altre recensioni | Sep 14, 2022 |

This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians… di Marilyn Johnson

Well, who else would read this book except a librarian wannabe? I loved it. I had no idea about what the "new" librarians or information specialists or organizers of the world or whatever you want to call these wonderful people, were doing with the huge shift in everything technological. I am so jealous of librarians! They are soooooo cool!

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BarbF410 | 111 altre recensioni | May 22, 2022 |

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