Posts Tagged ‘news’
Fitzgerald’s Bookkeeping, and Other News
April 30, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
“All They Do Is Eat,” And Other News
April 29, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
- “It’s about eating lunch. They eat salad and cake. All they do is eat”: in which a two-year-old judges books by their covers.
- “He tends to devoice a lot of the fricatives, but I take that purely as an idiolectal variant”: an (in-depth) interview with the linguist who created Game of Thrones’ multiple languages.
- Fifty authors, including Hilary Mantel, Tom Stoppard, and John Banville, have contributed annotated first editions to an English PEN auction. Which is to say, they can (theoretically) be yours.
- The Henry Miller Memorial Library decamps temporarily to Miller’s hometown of Brooklyn for the Big Sur Brooklyn Bridge festival.
- Ishiguro on film, Tóibín on opera: six novelists on their second-favorite art forms.
Unlikely Aphrodisiacs, and Other News
April 26, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
Salinger Letters, and Other News
April 25, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
- “You can’t go around buying Cadillacs on what the small mags pay, but that doesn’t really matter, does it?” A new cache of letters by young J. D. Salinger comes to light.
- Granta editor John Freeman is leaving the magazine to teach.
- Edward de Grazia, a lawyer and free-speech advocate who defended both Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch, has died at eighty-six.
- The strange mystery of the stolen books of Lambeth Palace.
- The Library of Congress (sort of) comes to terms with eBooks.
Bargain Books, and Other News
April 23, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
- It’s World Book Night.
- When you buy a book for $3.50 and it’s signed by Martin Luther King.
- The Digital Public Library of America is live!
- The craft behind Toronto’s Type Books storefront.
- RIP Mud Luscious Press.
Close Reading, and Other News
April 19, 2013 | by Sadie Stein
