Knopf publicity bigwig Paul Bogaards kindly plunked us onto his Hierarchy of Book Publishing: The Top 100. We’d note that we’re run out of basements throughout the NY-metro area (and not just NJ), but we’re too busy telling the Stieg Larsson estate to eat our dust.
Hierarchy of Book Publishing: The Top 100
Shakespeare in Asia
"It’s fair to say Shakespeare is having a cultural moment in Asia, with a “boom” of new film adaptations and dramatic stagings," and the Royal Shakespeare Company just received 1.5 million pounds to keep that boom going by translating all of the Bard's plays into Mandarin. Melville House has the full story, and it pairs well with both this diagram of a translated book's usual lifespan and this discussion of Shakespeare's best plays.
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Vote for your Millions!
Dearest readers, the voting is now open in the 3 Quarks Daily Arts & Literature prize judged by Laila Lalami. Read and vote for your favorite piece from The Millions here!
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Dear Mr. Watterson Gets a Trailer
A few months back, I wrote about Dear Mr. Watterson, which at the time was set to premiere at Cleveland’s International Film Festival. Well, fans of Calvin and Hobbes will be happy to learn that the Bill Watterson documentary has just released its first teaser trailer. Look for the flick to hit theaters this November.
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Found in Florence
"It was just one small sign in a bustling city. But it was a sign, nevertheless, that Florence has not forgotten the Brownings after all." In the New York Times, novelist Ann Mah explored Florence looking for signs of the literary couple who called it home for many years: Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning. From our archives: a more sober look at the famed city.
For Science!
Celebrate of the recent discovery of the Higgs boson with the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's list of science fiction stories based on "more or less accurate science" and the recently uploaded sci-fi themed New Yorker fiction podcast.
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Riverhead Heads
Riverhead Books makes an amusing pun in a new fundraiser in which individuals can purchase 3D heads of Riverhead authors — Marlon James, Khaled Hosseini, Elizabeth Gilbert, Lauren Groff, Nick Hornby and more. Proceeds will go to the nonprofit Libraries Without Borders, which supports migrant and refugee populations in Europe by making books and learning materials accessible in multiple languages.
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