St. Mark’s Bookshop won their desired rent reduction, and is throwing a party to celebrate! (via.)
Not Just a Book Party
Cary Fukunaga to Direct WWII Flick
An unpublished novel by ESPN the Magazine editor Paul Kix will be adapted into a movie by True Detective director Cary Fukunaga. The project is known as Noble Assassin, and it will concern a French aristocrat who trains with British Special Operations in hopes of one day returning to his native country to lead the World War II resistance.
Literary Doppelgängers Through the Ages
Laurence Scott recounts the best books featuring doppelgängers, from Shakespeare to Agatha Christie to Philip Roth to Joanna Kavenna.
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More Steve Jobs
In 1985, Steve Jobs was interviewed for Playboy. (Note: link is safe for work)
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Writing as Meditation with Ruth Ozeki
Ruth Ozeki discusses her latest novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, and how she used meditation practices to get into the mind of her characters.
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Sensual Data
Mary Karr’s The Art of Memoir was published a few weeks ago to great critical acclaim, and this excerpt from the book on carnal writing and sensual data is evidence of why. If Karr’s your thing, we’ve mentioned her in a couple of previous Curiosities over at The Millions.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Levertov; Tolstoy; Freud
New this week: The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov; a new translation of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich; and the complete letters of Sigmund Freud.