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What’s Your Life-Changing Book?

Posted on June 5, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

It was Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams that set Salvadore Dali on his life-changing path when he read it in 1925 while attending art school. I learned this from one of the instructional plaques in the Salvadore Dali Museum … Continue reading →

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V&B’s Current Owner = New Friend

Posted on May 3, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

VanderWyk & Burnham (V&B) is the name of the tradebook publishing company I founded in 1994 and sold in 2009. Its mission statement was to publish books that promote learning, compassion, and self-reliance and make a difference in people’s lives. … Continue reading →

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Borders Group Gets Chance to Reorganize

Posted on May 1, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

Article first published as Borders Group Gets Chance to Reorganize on Blogcritics.   On April 27, 2011, United States Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn, the judge on the Borders Group bankruptcy case, wrote a memo. Actually, it was an Opinion. It … Continue reading →

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It’s Not Like Selling Beer

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Meredith Ann Rutter

My head was nodding vigorously in agreement when I first read the following quotation in a Shelf Awareness e-newsletter. It’s an excerpted portion of an interview with author Margaret Atwood. After the quotation, click on the link provided if you … Continue reading →

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