- E-paper continues to get press. The New York Times talks up the technology’s potential for newspapers. See also: The digital future of the book.
- MetaxuCafe is covering the Pen World Voices Festival.
- Sara Gran, much praised for her book Dope and her blog has a new edition of her book, Come Closer, coming out.
Some Links
The Book Detective
"When I ask him why he likes something, it’s a perverse exercise less to gain new insight than to trick him into admitting to his personality." For Longreads, Dead Girls writer Alice Bolin tries to understand her father through the (sometimes misogynistic) mystery novels he reads and loves. (Read our own Janet Potter on Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy.)
Truck Driver From the Waist Down
Recommended Reading: On the forgotten journalism of Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird. Lee's forays into journalism included a 1,200-word profile of Officer Dewey, the lead investigator in the series of murders which were the focus of Truman Capote's seminal In Cold Blood, and another short profile of Capote himself for the newsletter of a Book of the Month Club which had selected In Cold Blood as its monthly read -- seriously.
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“The heat of autumn / is different from the heat of summer.”
With the help of Flora Coker, the Poetry Foundation created an animated reading of Jane Hirshfield’s “The Heat of Autumn.”
The Finnish Word for Author is “Kirjailija”
Jill Timbers, the translator charged with converting J.K. Rowling’s next book into Finnish, will have to complete the 480-page project in just three weeks. She writes about the work over here, and then adds some more information on the Three Percent blog.
The Ultimate Literary Celebrity
Has Joan Didion become "the Ultimate Literary Celebrity"? In an article for the New Republic Laura Marsh says "yes," and then explains how that happened. Marsh's efforts pair well with Franklin Strong's recent Millions essay on "The Manliness of Joan Didion," Joan Didion being a literary figure who easily adapts to any description.
John Cage, Silence
Don't listen to John Cage's 4'33" while you read Marjorie Perloff's article on the 50th anniversary of Silence. It could be a distraction.