Welcome to Huki Links – highlighting some of our favorite literary links and more over the past week from across the ‘net! For more about Huki-Links, check out our inaugural post.
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[gn_divider]Links covering the week of March 5 – 13, 2012*
Hawaiʻi Literary
-Kaui Hart Hemmings to host free readings this Friday at the Waikiki Beach Marriott. [Honolulu Pulse]
-Start marking your calendars…the Hawaii Book & Music Festival (HB&MF) is coming May 5 and 6! [HB&MF]
-Nice megareview of Hawaiʻi literature including books by Juliet Kono, Jon Shirota, Chris McKinney, Sandra Park and Lee Cataluna. [Asian-Am Lit Fans]
-LA Weekly interview with Sarah Vowell about her book, Unfamiliar Fishes. [Public Spectacle]
-Hey it’s my kind of review…full of footnotes and references! Garden Urthark reviews Toby Neal’s Blood Orchids. [Garden Urthark]
-Book of the week: Almost Paradise by Laurie Hanan. [Being Jewish in Hawaii]
-Review of Kamehameha’s Crown: A History of the Hawaiian Monarchy by Stephen Bunford. [RBN – Royal Book News]
-Review of Professor David Callies’ Regulating Paradise: Land Use Controls in Hawaii (2nd edition). [Hawai`i Free Press]
-Book Review: Molokaʻi, a Novel About Leprosy. [Women Centric]
-New Book “Hawaiʻi’s Mauna Loa Observatory: Fifty Years Of Monitoring The Atmosphere” By Forrest M Mims III. [Climate Science: Pielke]
-Le’a Finds Aloha In Hawai’i: A Children’s Book project in Honolulu, HI by Tesia Melani A Worley. Song is pretty cool. 27 days to go! [Kickstarter]
-Exclusive interview with author Kaui Hart Hemmings about The Descendants and its transition to film. [i am ROGUE]
General Literary
-The Top 25 Baseball Books for Your Desert Island. [HuffPost Books]
-Children’s publisher developing an app for e-reading. [Hawaii News Now]
-E-publishing 101: How to Get Started. [Lindsay Buroker]
-Godin to authors: You have no right to make money any more. [GigaOM]
-Barry, Joe, & Scott Turow. [A Newbie’s Guide to Publishing]
-In defense of America’s “rich literary culture.” [Corleone Comments On…]
-How Fast Do You Read? (Test) [eBookNewser]
-Libraries Protest Random House Price Hike. [Hawaii News Now]
Non-Literary Links
-‘Table For One, Please? What we learn from eating alone.’ by Jaimie Gusman [Honolulu Weekly]
-Hail Freezes Over in Hawaiʻi. [Star-Advertiser]
-Looking back at Magnum P.I. [Den of Geek]
-Shedding a little light on daylight-saving time. Unraveling the mystery behind that thing we don’t do in Hawaiʻi. [MSNBC]
-Should you buy the new iPad? + Doc Rock speaks 日本語 with Siri. [nonstophonolulu]
-An interesting negative local review of the film ‘The Descendants’. [maui time]
-Adoption in Ancient Hawaiʻi. [Hawaiian Roots]
-Top 10 Badass things you can do one-handed. [Lifehacker]
-Well Known North Dakota Columnist Rips Off Humor Columns From Hawaiʻi, Around the Country. [Hawaii Reporter]
-Women Who Shaped Jamaican Music. [The Gleaner]
-Cool infographic: “Turning the Tide: The Recession in Hawaiʻi.” [Jeff Piontek] [gn_divider]
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*some exceptions to the date range may apply
