Willa Cather‘s 1927 novel, Death Comes for the Archibishop, will be the topic of a chatcast tomorrow, Tuesday, at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, 7:00 Central, 6:00 Mountain, and 5:00 Pacific. The e-book is $4.47 from Scott Redford’s Diesel eBooks in Richmond, Virginia. I’m gonna buy it–I am delighted to send some money in the direction of Scott, who’s hip on the need for e-book standards.
Still, I’m rather grumpy about the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, without which schoolchildren could access the Cather classic for free. Guess what? The 1998 act didn’t spur her to write one extra word. She was already dead in 1947. As a former teacher keen on spreading knowledge, she probably would hated the guts of the Hollywood lobbyists behind the act. Something for the folks at University of North Carolina to think about next week as they discuss the cosmic issues of intellectual property? Does anyone down in Chapel Hill care to lobby UNC poverty warrior John Edwards on these matters, given his having served on a copyright-related committee and his probably fixin’ to run again for president next time?
Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming. More details about the chatcast follow from Tom Peters, the moderator.
Hello, Everyone. This is just a reminder that tomorrow night (Wednesday) beginning at 8:00 Eastern Daylight Time, 7:00 Central, 6:00 Mountain, and 5:00 Pacific we will have an online book discussion about Willa Cather’s 1927 novel, Death Comes for the Archibishop.
The online discussion will be held in the OPAL Atrium, which is accessible from the following URL:
http://67.19.231.218/v4/login.asp?r=7c4d784b&p=0
Like Cather’s novel, My Antonia, which we discussed last year, Death Comes for the Archibishop addresses the various cultures (various Native peoples, Mexicans, Spanish, French, and “Americans”) that interacted in the last half of the 19th century in what is now New Mexico and Arizona.
