• Malachy McCourt has said that his brother Frank—author of Angela's Ashes—is gravely ill and "not expected to live."
• Aram Saroyan talks about the Beats on the Poetry Foundation's website.
• The film version of David Foster Wallace's Brief Interviews with Hideous Men will be out in September.
• Shop Independent. Be Independent. Be Green, Too.
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Tonight we host local author and playwright Lisa Mantchev. She'll be reading from her theatrically fantastic novel Eyes Like Stars. Join us at our U District store for the event.
Showing posts with label News of the Literary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News of the Literary. Show all posts
Thursday, July 16, 2009
Thursday, July 09, 2009
Good Morning, Thursday.
Hey there. Here's a quick tour of the online literary world.
• Mental Floss magazine lists the longest-running novel series for readers who want to spend the Summer (and Fall, and Winter, and Spring, and next Summer, and next Fall, etc.) reading about only one character, group of characters, or setting. (Did you know that including spin-offs there were 709 Mac Bolan books!)
• HBO will be making a television series out of Jeffrey Eugenides novel Middlesex. Also potentially exciting: HBO's collaboration with one of my favorite writers, Jonathan Ames, on the series Bored to Death.
• Nabokov's The Original of Laura will come out in December, but one week before the pub date, an excerpt will appear in Playboy, giving his readers a chance to pull out that "I only read Playboy for the articles" joke.
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Tonight University Book Store welcomes science fiction/thriller writer David J. Williams to the store. He begins at 7pm, and will be reading from his book Burning Skies, which Philip K. Dick award winner Stephen Baxter called "Tom Clancy interfacing with Bruce Sterling."
• Mental Floss magazine lists the longest-running novel series for readers who want to spend the Summer (and Fall, and Winter, and Spring, and next Summer, and next Fall, etc.) reading about only one character, group of characters, or setting. (Did you know that including spin-offs there were 709 Mac Bolan books!)
• HBO will be making a television series out of Jeffrey Eugenides novel Middlesex. Also potentially exciting: HBO's collaboration with one of my favorite writers, Jonathan Ames, on the series Bored to Death.
• Nabokov's The Original of Laura will come out in December, but one week before the pub date, an excerpt will appear in Playboy, giving his readers a chance to pull out that "I only read Playboy for the articles" joke.
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Tonight University Book Store welcomes science fiction/thriller writer David J. Williams to the store. He begins at 7pm, and will be reading from his book Burning Skies, which Philip K. Dick award winner Stephen Baxter called "Tom Clancy interfacing with Bruce Sterling."
Monday, July 06, 2009
Good Morning!
Here's a little tour around the net's literary side.
• Via Bookslut, here's Bill Watterson on Krazy Kat. (Watterson, of course, was the cartoonist behind the beloved and much-missed Calvin and Hobbes.)
• University Book Store favorite Kelly Link won a Locus award for the novella Pretty Monsters. Congratulations, Kelly!
• The Poetry Foundation's Travis Nichols (who recently moved to Chicago from Seattle) eulogizes Michael Jackson and Michael Jackson's haircut.
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No store readings tonight.Our hard-working Events Staff will have to find some other way of filling their evening. Possibly by entering a creative writing contest of some sort.
• Via Bookslut, here's Bill Watterson on Krazy Kat. (Watterson, of course, was the cartoonist behind the beloved and much-missed Calvin and Hobbes.)
• University Book Store favorite Kelly Link won a Locus award for the novella Pretty Monsters. Congratulations, Kelly!
• The Poetry Foundation's Travis Nichols (who recently moved to Chicago from Seattle) eulogizes Michael Jackson and Michael Jackson's haircut.
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No store readings tonight.Our hard-working Events Staff will have to find some other way of filling their evening. Possibly by entering a creative writing contest of some sort.
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