In November, Simon & Schuster will publish a book on the global economic crisis by Gordon Brown.
The president of the French University of Provence Aix-Marseille cancelled a March 2011 writers’ conference after scheduled participants protested the inclusion of the Israeli author Esther Orner.
Why can’t e-books for the Kindle be given as gifts?
College bookstores will soon allow students to rent textbooks for half the cost of purchasing them.
Tracy Kidder on M.F.A. writing programs, literary journalism, and the dangers of using the “swashbuckling first person” narrator.
Redesigned covers of classic novels: for better or for worse.
Maurice Sendak has made a one-million-dollar donation to the Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services.
Curious George will star in new public-service advertisements urging parents to read with their children.
Why do the Sherlock Holmes stories remain appealing generations after they were written?
Posted on Jul 27th, 2010 by Eileen Reynolds in Curious George, Esther Orner, Gordon Brown, In the News, MFA programs, Maurice Sendak, Sherlock Holmes, Simon and Schuster, Tracy Kidder, book covers, e-books, literacy, philanthropy, textbooks |
A new biography argues that Louis Armstrong was a better musician than people remember.
Nicolas Sarkozy’s proposal to relocate Albert Camus’s remains to the Pantheon meets with resistance.
The Telegraph reports that Spike Jonze and Maurice Sendak wrangled over whether to turn Max’s bedroom into a jungle in the adaptation of “Where the Wild Things Are.”
New York magazine publishes seven speculative short stories about contemporary politics.
The latest cookbook from the Moosewood Collective features “more kale and less cheese.”
The airport bookstore chain Hudson Booksellers releases its 2009 top-ten lists.
Sam Kean argues that despite their erudition, William Safire and William F. Buckley were “pretty dreadful writers.”
Posted on Nov 24th, 2009 by Ian Crouch in Albert Camus, Hudson Booksellers, In the News, Louis Armstrong, Maurice Sendak, Moosewood Collective, New York Magazine, Nicolas Sarkozy, Sam Kean, Spike Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are, William F. Buckley, William Safire |
Great images of books from around the world and the Web.
Two parents, inspired by their love of “Where the Wild Things Are,” had their friend and artist Simon Ings create a stone relief of the book’s cover as a decoration for their home. “We wanted … something that says something about the people that live there,” wrote the father, Daniel Heaf. “Something that represents our brand new little family.”
(Via BoingBoing.)
Photograph by Daniel Heaf, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
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Posted on Nov 16th, 2009 by Thessaly La Force in 1,000 Words, Flickr, Maurice Sendak, Wild things |
