Michael Lewis has been tapped by Warner Brothers to adapt his first book Liar’s Poker for the big screen. This will be the third movie based on one of Lewis’ books.
Michael Lewis Goes to the Movies (Again)
Fre-books
Nicholas Carr, author of The Shallows (which was a favorite of Jonathan Safran Foer), floats a new idea to publishers: give away your e-books for free!
Geoff Dyer on Pagetti’s Syria
The devastating images of Syria shot by Franco Pagetti have been collected into a series entitled Veiled Aleppo. Over at The New Republic, Geoff Dyer writes about one of them. It’s an image, Dyer observes, that features “symbols … of the death throes not of a city but of film.”
Dismissed As Coincidence
You'll have to read this Curiosity to believe it! The surprise bestselling Time-Life series was wildly popular in the late 80s–but why? The answer is a bit less mysterious than one might have hoped. As a consolation, here’s a related essay from The Millions on conspiracy literature.
The Arcades Project
If you thought Michel Houellebecq was controversial, let me direct your attention to Kenneth Goldsmith. In this piece, the poet that everyone loves to hate asserts his desire “to take Walter Benjamin off the pedestal and on to the coffee table.” His newest, Capital, is out now.
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400 Year of Shakespeare
To mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, check out 25 author’s reflections on his work. (The tube map has also been recreated in his honor.) You could also read Stefanie Peters’s thoughts on why we continue to rewrite the Bard’s stories.
Mercury in Retrograde
"Creativity is back in the house in the second half of the month, so quit your grumbling and get back to work." These writer horoscopes for the month of March will have you crushing through writers block and haggling over your contracts in no time.
DFW’s postcard to Don DeLillo
In addition to our own annotation of David Foster Wallace's work today, Electric Literature's blog has a great little piece of literary history up in the form of a postcard he wrote to Don DeLillo.
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