Milan Kundera’s new collection of essays, Encounter, is now out. And for those still trying to figure out Inception, the shooting script has been published.
Tuesday New Release Day
“Ah the world, oh the whale!”
"Ah the world, oh the whale!" At The Washington Times, my review of Philip Hoare's wonderful new anatomy of all things cetacean, The Whale, winner of the prestigious Samuel Johnson nonfiction prize. (ECW)
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Grindr’s Poet in Residence
"Starting next week, I will be the gay social networking app Grindr’s first poet in residence," writes Max Wallis, author of Modern Love.
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Facts and Feelings
“Historical fiction was not—and is not—meant to supplant literature from the period it describes.” Year in Reading alumnus Alexander Chee on historical novels and creative liberties.
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A Film of Common Prayer
Looks like Joan Didion's 1977 novel A Book of Common Prayer will now be adapted for the screen.
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Harvard University Press’s Redistribution of Wealth
Flushed with cash after the runaway success of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the Twenty-First Century, the Harvard University Press has decided to offer a 20% discount off two dozen works on capitalism and its discontents. Get to it while the gettin’s good.
Hints of Granite
Recommended Reading: Charles Simic on drinking wine in New Hampshire.