Video excuse: Stewart Lee signs book deal with Faber
The news that Faber & Faber has just signed a book deal with comedian Stewart Lee provides us with 1. Reason to be happy and 2. An excuse to post the… Read more »
In Paris, Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast becomes emblem of defiance
Along with the flowers and candles placed at the sites of last Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, mourners are also leaving copies of Ernest Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast. Bookstores are moving lots of… Read more »
Threadbare Theatre will adapt “Moby-Dick” for the stage… or a boat?
In April, Threadbare Theatre Workshop staged a reading of “or, The Whale” at WORD Bookstore. The Greenpoint-based theater group is now planning a fully staged version of Herman Melville’s classic… Read more »
Was Pulp’s ‘Common People’ inspired by Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis’ wife?
She came from Greece, she had a thirst for knowledge, She studied sculpture at Saint Martin’s College, That’s where I… Caught her eye. So begins Pulp’s hit song ‘Common People’,… Read more »
Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library’s Taylor Swift Parody Video for National Library Week
To celebrate National Library Week last week (April 13-18), the Tokeka and Shawnee County Public Library created a parody video of Taylor Swift’s hit song “Shake it Off.” The librarians’… Read more »
Authors tidy their bedrooms as #whereiwrite launches
Remember when writers wrote books in private? Of course you do! Because it was happening as recently as Wednesday. But things took a turn for the worst yesterday, when Hachette… Read more »
Cats Rights Activists are protesting Lynne Truss’s new novel CAT OUT OF HELL
In what is certain to be the biggest controversy to rock the book world this year, Lynne Truss’s new novel Cat Out Of Hell was recently slammed by the “Cat’s Rights”… Read more »
Live long and prosper: Leonard Nimoy reads Ray Bradbury
It’s been nearly fifty years since Star Trek first aired on NBC, but Leonard Nimoy’s Mr. Spock—the cool, cerebral, half-human, half-Vulcan officer aboard the starship Enterprise—has remained one of the… Read more »
Jonathan Safran Foer’s quasi-novel inspires Olafur Eliasson, Wayne McGregor, and Jamie xx’s non-quasi-ballet
Let’s begin with two remarks by visual artist, soil salinizer, and hip-hop star Olafur Eliasson. First, his endorsement of Jonathan Safran Foer’s non-novel Tree of Codes: Jonathan Safran Foer, [sic, because… Read more »
Maya Angelou on how to get something for nothing
Here’s an animated conversation between Maya Angelou and Studs Terkel, on stories told to her by con men when she was young. The interview took place in the 1970s, and… Read more »