Posts Tagged ‘The Hobbit’
October 1, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Artists from all over the world reinterpret covers for The Observer’s list of the hundred greatest novels.
The Ransom Center’s Pale King archive is now open to the public.
Look through some of DFW’s extensive notes.
Good news for Louie C.K.: the Puzo estate can’t prevent any future Godfather films.
“The Hobbit, published seventy-five years ago, is not a fantasy-adventure as it is being described, but a myth, or part of a mythology.” On the novel’s scholarly underpinnings.
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TAGS J.R.R. Tolkien, Mario Puzo, news, roundup, The Godfather, The Hobbit, The Pale King, The Ransom Center, University of Texas
September 25, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
The real Tom Sawyer. Courtesy Guardians of the City, San Francisco Fire Museum.
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TAGS Billy Connelly, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mark Twain, Roald Dahl, The Hobbit, Tom Sawyer, Zadie Smith
March 14, 2012 | by Sadie Stein
Madeline.
A cultural news roundup.
TAGS Christopher Hitchens, Das Rheingold, Encyclopedia Britannica, Ernest Hemingway, Fairy Tale, fan fiction, Good Books, imran khan, Madeline, Metropolitan Opera, opera, Salman Rushdie, Stephen Fry, The Hobbit, The Hobbit Pub, urban dictionary
October 26, 2011 | by Sadie Stein
A cultural news roundup.
Whiting winners have been announced.
A Shakespeare organization defends the Bard’s honor against the slander of Anonymous.
After all, “With its portrayal of William Shakespeare as a drunken buffoon who could hardly read, let alone write some of the finest poetry in the English language, Roland Emmerich’s Anonymous was unlikely to be popular with the Stratford set.”
Ditto Joss Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing.
We imagine Melville fans will be wary of Moby-Dick in space, too.
Speaking of Moby-Dick ...
Here’s one for purists: Tolkien’s original Hobbit illustrations.
A Harold Pinter sketch has been rediscovered.
Ditto a forgotten O’Neill one-act.
Protest for tots.
Archimedes’s brain.
Tintin’s long shadow.
Authors’ heavy beards.
“From the moment Ron Shaoul took it upon himself to investigate the practice of reading on the toilet, scouring medical literature and turning up nothing of note as to its public health consequences, the situation became clear that here, on his hands, was a big job.”
Writers for the 99 percent.
Booksellers, spies ... two sides of the same coin!
TAGS 99%, Anonymous, Archimdedes, Eugene O'Neill, Harold Pinter, Herman Melville, J.R.R. Tolkein, Joss Whedon, Moby Dick, Much Ado About Nothing, protest, Roland Emmerich, Stratford, The Hobbit, Tintin, Whiting Awards, William Shakespeare
June 22, 2011 | by Sadie Stein
A cultural news roundup.
A. Whitney Ellsworth, the first publisher of The New York Review of Books, has died at seventy-five.
Even Kate Middleton’s spelling is under scrutiny.
Andrea Levy’s The Long Song has won the Walter Scott prize for historical fiction.
Whoa. Keanu Reeves writes poetry.
Pottermore mania!
Celebrate Independent Bookseller’s Week.
The Hobbit movie will contain an elf character not found in the original book, to be played by Evangeline Lilly.
The first self-published author to sell a million e-books is one John Locke (not to be confused with the philosopher).
Says Jim Shepard of his ominously named story collection You Think That’s Bad: “It does seem to embody some of the characters’ worldviews ... [It’s like saying,] ‘Wait until you see what’s coming.’”
In order to compete against online retailers, independent bookstores may have to start charging for their events. Ann Patchett is concerned: “I wouldn’t want the people who have no idea who I am and have nothing else to do on a Wednesday night shut out. Those are your readers.”
Who will win the Greenaway Medal?
Meet the greatest baseball game ever played.
TAGS "Andrea Levy, A. Whitney Ellsworth, JK Rowling, John Locke, Kate Greenaway, The Hobbit
