{"id":47458,"date":"2013-02-27T10:00:25","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=47458"},"modified":"2013-02-27T10:43:27","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T15:43:27","slug":"digital-book-signings-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/02\/27\/digital-book-signings-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Book Signings, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ab-Toni-Morrison.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/ab-Toni-Morrison.jpg\" alt=\"ab-Toni-Morrison\" width=\"225\" height=\"284\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-47459\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<li>\u201cWhy do so many novels get adapted into screenplays at all, when their essential quality, the persuasive and enthralling power of prose, always must be stripped\u2014and the final product is always left in some state of diminishment?\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/online\/blogs\/books\/2013\/02\/adaptaion-parades-end-and-the-idea-of-the-mini-series.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ian Crouch<\/a> on that modern institution, the miniseries.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>At three <small>P.M.<\/small>, <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/events\/c6lm5gn73v7ffgk5sdojf2pa38o\" target=\"_blank\">Toni Morrison<\/a> is conducting a \u201cdigital book signing.\u201d (Really more of a Google hangout, but still.)\n<\/li>\n<li>What are the ten best <a href=\"http:\/\/bookriot.tumblr.com\/post\/44139651405\/10-best-books-ive-never-read\" target=\"_blank\">books you\u2019ve never read<\/a>? (I, for one, have never finished <em>The Ginger Man<\/em>.)<\/li>\n<li>While we\u2019re ranking stuff: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2013\/02\/24\/books\/review\/nominations-for-best-film-about-a-writer.html?ref=books&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">your favorite film about a writer<\/a>? (<em>Barton Fink<\/em>.)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRather than limiting discussion of a certain book to a digital room in e-readers such as the Kobo or Kindle, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2013\/02\/25\/social-reading_n_2757591.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003&amp;ir=Books\" target=\"_blank\">Socialbook<\/a> lets all your friends in your personal digital network know what you\u2019re reading and invites them into the conversation. Furthermore, Socialbook puts participants right into the text of the book, where they can scribble notes in the digital margin of the book, highlight portions, pull out quotes and even rearrange the content.\u201d To coin a phrase,\u00a0\u201cPlus \u00e7a change, plus c\u2019est la m\u00eame chose.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhy do so many novels get adapted into screenplays at all, when their essential quality, the persuasive and enthralling power of prose, always must be stripped\u2014and the final product is always left in some state of diminishment?\u201d\u00a0Ian Crouch on that modern institution, the miniseries.\u00a0 At three P.M., Toni Morrison is conducting a \u201cdigital book signing.\u201d 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