Shel Silverstein is the subject of two articles this week courtesy of The Atlantic and The New York Times.
Silverstein in the News
U.S. History Textbooks or J.K. Rowling’s Magic
Over at Indian Country Today Media Network, read a statement in response to the controversy surrounding J.K. Rowling’s History of Magic in North America. “What matters here, folks, in this debate over J.K. Rowling’s latest work is the language society uses – the language that is still taught to kids in schools today about Native Americans and our spiritualities.”
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Borders Officially Closes
The sale of Borders was officially approved yesterday. To make sense of the entire fiasco, Melville House's Dennis Johnson has a compelling write-up. For most book lovers, their final sale is bittersweet.
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Just Like in the Movies
Belle and Sebastian’s Stevie Jackson, better known (at least to this writer) as the Sultan of Twee, sits down with Rick Moody as part of the Swinging Modern Sounds feature over at The Rumpus. Among other things, Jackson says that he thinks the John Lennon album Sometime in New York City is a “total masterpiece” and says that at one point in his life he could recite the book Trainspotting.
“Friedlander’s portraits do not feel celebratory”
In his review of Lee Friedlander’s collection, Playing for the Benefit of the Band: New Orleans Music Culture, Nathaniel Rich remarks on the “unsettling beauty” of the artist's photographs.
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His first step was to contact a real estate agent
In this week's London Review of Books Elif Batuman has a great piece about Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence, both the book and the place. It would pair well with our own Lydia Kiesling's award-winning essay on the book from 2010.
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A Narrative Made Up of Many Narratives
Elizabeth Karp-Evans interviews How to Read a Novelist author John Freeman about editing, American narratives, and his goals for Freeman’s.
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