Lit ephemera roundup.
August 6, 2010 \am\31 10:47 am
- Jimmy Chen of HTML Giant is so tired of fucking birds on book covers.
- Guardian Books on the potential return of experimental fiction. And here’s Zadie Smith’s nifty 2008 NY Review of Books essay that inspired it.
- The Kama Sutra is now an audiobook! Yay?
- Newsweek has a photo of JD Salinger from 1968. It’s more exciting than it sounds. Also, it isn’t that one up at the top of the page.
- Jacket Copy (LA Times) celebrates the demise of Prop 8 with a list of 20 classic works of gay literature. On a related note, if anyone would like to ruin a Fox News poll, they may do so here.
- Salon talks to Jeff Deck, who drove all over the country to correct people’s spelling and then wrote a book about it. So basically my dream job.
- AV Club’s excellent feature Wrapped Up in Books is holding a a live discussion of David Mitchell’s Booker-shortlisted novel Cloud Atlas this afternoon. You can read some of the staff comments on that book and the idea of genre here. I haven’t read this book yet, but I am hearing great things. Any of you guys read it? What did you think?
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That whole picture article on Salinger really doesn’t need to exist, does it? Felt like I was reading US Weekly.