A stunning short film on the beauty of the book. Enjoy!
• Reclusive author Cormac McCarthy takes some time out with the WSJ to discuss the upcoming film adaptation of The Road.
• OK. So there is a lot of bad sex in fiction. But I’ll bet you’d struggle to name one book in which sex has been handled well? Hrm? What’s that? Yeah, didn’t think so…
• $tephen King plots sequel to The $hining
• Quoting a Roman poet? That’s a lawsuit!
• The Washington Post on the ‘twilight’ of women’s literature. See what I did there?
• An ode to the ‘cosy catastrophe’.
• Literate people should boycott books.
• Malcolm Gladwell is not the first and certainly won’t be the last author to offer a staunch rebuttal to a negative review. But this is one deliciously scathing comeback…
• Take it away Mr. Dinosaur: “There are awards for everything awarded by everyone, and if you don’t specify I’m going to assume you won the ‘Worse Than Hitler Award for Real Terribleness.’ Unless it’s the Nobel or the Pulitzer, I’m really not interested!”
• What’s the deal with all these book trailers?
