Amid further discussion and exploration of marginalia, a discovery of cartoon marginalia in the New Yorker archives.
Cartoon Marginalia
Common Consciousness Changed
"For good or evil, we are a single people: the more we become conscious of this, the less difficult and long will be humanity's progress towards justice and peace." The inimitable Primo Levi on the spiritual value of science and its ability to bring people together.
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Act 266, Scene 6
How do you turn a 900-page novel into a play? You make it five hours long, that's how. Roberto Bolaño's classic 2666 is headed for the stage.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Zhang; Perrotta; Binet; Senna; Gurnah; Lish
Out this week: Sour Heart by Jenny Zhang; Mrs. Fletcher by Tom Perrotta; The Seventh Function of Language by Laurent Binet; New People by Danzy Senna; Gravel Heart by Abdulrazak Gurnah; and White Plains by Gordon Lish. For more on these and other new titles, go read our most recent book preview.
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Who Would Want to Buy a Printed Book?
The Boston Globe interviews Andrew Pettegree, author of The Book in the Renaissance, on how no one had any idea how to sell the first printed books. (via Book Bench)
Pride and Proto-Feminisim
"The literary type of burlesque also peels off layers ... They are bolder and more coarsely humorous pieces that go beyond silly copies, like turbo-charged parodies. Jane Austen’s burlesques were full-on irreverent, turning a thing on its head, forcing us to peek underneath to see its naked absurdities." On the proto-feminist snark of a young Jane Austen.
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