Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall follow-up Bring Up the Bodies has a cover. Get excited.
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Recommended Reading: Anything that Vivian Gornick writes. Here's an essay from The New York Times on how literature ages and rereading E.M. Forster's Howard's End. Our own Lydia Keisling also wrote a fantastic piece on the Forster classic.
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“The closest analogy for me is Woody Allen”
Following in the footsteps of Amy Poehler, The Office star B.J. Novak has signed a book deal with Knopf. Unlike Poehler, who plans to write a memoir, Novak will publish a collection of comedic short stories.
There’s A New Oz in Town
The new Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful, which stars Mila Kunis and James Franco among others, has its first official trailer. The film will release in 2013.
The Bechdel Test Through History
Sometime Millions contributor Frank Kovarik takes a look at Alison Bechdel's famous test for gender bias in movies and applies it to literary classics going back to Homer.
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Where In The World Is That Book Going?
The Book Depository is “the UK’s largest dedicated online bookseller,” which is all well and good, but their live visualization of which customers are ordering what (and from where) might be the best part of the entire website.
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Galileo’s Taste; Galileo’s Work; Galileo’s Life
Can Galileo’s literary preferences teach us about “the unusual and creative features of his physics?” John L. Heilbron thinks so.
“The historic past unrolls like a park”
Recommended Reading: Sadie Stein on the writing of Elizabeth Bowen.
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In Case You Were Curious
Baratunde Thurston, stand-up comedian and director of digital for The Onion, stops by NPR's Fresh Air to read from his new memoir and satirical self-help book How to Be Black.