Ever wonder what vintage Indian pulp book covers would look like? How about Czech movie posters from the 1970’s? Maybe Belarusian movie posters circa 2007?
Art Beyond America
A Mixed Media Analysis
Espen Terjesen, a Norwegian graphic artist, teacher, and writer, has put together a striking piece, equal parts graphic novel and academic essay, on Thomas Bernhard.
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Alex Karras Remembered
Bill Morris, clearly maneuvering for the title of Motor City Poet Laureate, follows up his piece on Detroit’s comeback with a vivid account of Lion legend Alex Karras. “Karras will always be a pink giant with a towel wrapped around his waist,” Morris writes.
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Findings
Is Findings.com a "social network that may actually make you smarter”?
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Mapping Short Story Titles
The B.O.M.M. blog looked at our recent item Best American Short Stories: By the Numbers, in which we crunched some numbers behind the Best American Short Stories series, and created a nifty word map of the short story titles that appeared in the series from 1978 to 2008. "The most frequent word for a title (not including articles and such)? Life. It has appeared 9 times." If anyone else decides to mine some interesting discoveries from the B.A.S.S. data, let us know.
The Conch Republic Seeks Literary Job Applicants
A true genius is someone who’s talented and accomplished enough to work in the publishing/literary crucible of New York City, but who’s also smart enough to know that working in New York City is nothing compared to working in Key West, Florida. That’s right: the Key West Literary Seminar is hiring.
Tuesday New Release Day: Carey, Mieville, Murakami
New today are Peter Carey's The Chemistry of Tears and China Mieville's Railsea. And Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 is now out in a snazzy three-volume boxed-set paperback edition.
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Curated Book Lists
New York City's iconic Strand bookstore features prominent authors' curated book collections on their website. Here's Jennifer Egan's. Here's Art Spiegelman's.