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The Long and Short of It
By
Sadie Stein
October 16, 2012
On the Shelf
Adorable,
literal interpretations of author names
by illustrator Mattias Adolfsson.
“I know I said that if I lived to 100 I’d not regret what happened last night. But I woke up this morning and a century had passed. Sorry.” Geoff Dyer, Jackie Collins, A. M. Homes, and others
attempt the 140-character novel
.
Speaking of brevity,
Ian McEwan
declares that the novella is the superior written form because “you can hold the whole thing structurally in your mind at once.”
Qin Dynasty
book burnings.
Patti Smith
: “I remember the very first time I saw Kristen Stewart and Rob Pattinson together, when they were younger, and I thought, Those two kids could have easily played us [in
Just Kids
] when they were first starting. There’s something in his eyes. And Robert [Mapplethorpe] was also a bit shy, and a bit stoic. Kristen has a very special quality. She’s not conventionally beautiful, but very charismatic.”
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