Alexander Chee has a lovely essay about books and technology up at The Morning News.
Alexander Chee: “I, Reader”
Plight of the Loser
The Master Gets a Trailer
The trailer for Paul Thomas Anderson’s forthcoming film The Master was released this week. The film will be about a mercurial religion called “The Cause,” and the whole thing appears to be based on L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology.
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The New World hits virtual shelves
Chris Adrian's The New World, a digital-platform book we wrote about before, is now on shelves. I mean that idiomatically and not literally -- as none of the editions favored by The Atavist's young publishing arm for this lyrical love story of life after death (interactive ebook app, text-only Kindle/iBook/Google) involve paper.
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Still Here
For a man who’s retired, Philip Roth is still oddly present in the literary world. Ever since he announced his intention to quit writing, he’s made a stream of public appearances, including an awards ceremony at Yaddo one week after claiming he’d never appear on stage again. So what gives? In The Baffler, J.C. Hallman explains why writers can never really quit, in a piece that nicely complements our own take on literary retirement. FYI, Hallman has written for us.
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Another Self-Publishing Triumph
Self-published novelist Kemble Scott debuts at no. 5 on the San Francisco Chronicle's bestseller list with The Sower, following a limited hard-cover release to Bay Area independent booksellers by Numina Press, who acquired the book after Scott's initial e-book upload to scribd.com in May. According to Publisher's Weekly, "The Sower has had one of the most unorthodox publishing trajectories in these changing publishing times."
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Thanks for the excellent link, though. I get TMN newsletters far too late to get these awesome articles.
Oh, crud. Thank you for letting me know. Currently comcast is having a midwestern meltdown and I don’t think my phone can handle behind-the-scenes web stuff so I will fix this in the morning. Sorry about that!
Fixed!