Goodreads has unveiled its new book recommendation feature. Unlike Amazon’s feature, Goodreads’ will draw data from every book you’ve read and logged, not just those you’ve purchased online.
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Murakami’s Advice
Have a question? A problem? A query about cats? Haruki Murakami has answers and advice.
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Iowa’s Free Online Poetry Workshop
A new MOOC from the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program is scheduled to begin on June 28. “How Writers Write Poetry” is free and open to the public, and it will feature craft talks from poets such as Robert Hass and Kwame Dawes. A fiction-writing course is also scheduled for September. (Related: Read how several Iowa MFA students describe a typical day in the program.)
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NYRB Nu Classics?
The New York Review of Books is adding another imprint to its book publishing roster, but this one will be devoted entirely to ebooks.
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Gaiman TV
We thought we had a better chance of seeing Odin than Neil Gaiman's American Gods on TV, but after the HBO deal fell through, the novel is finally being adapted for the small screen by FremantleMedia. Bonus: Gaiman's Anansi Boys is also being adapted into a BBC miniseries by RED. To brush up on Gaiman's interest in mythology, read our review of The Ocean at the End of the Lane.
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More Baffler
We recently noted the return of The Baffler. Robert Birnbaum recently interviewed the magazine's new publisher John H. Summers.
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Blue Nights
An "extended short film excerpt" of Joan Didion reading from her memoir Blue Nights, which our own Michael Bourne reviewed yesterday.
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