Revealed: Lord Byron’s personal copy of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. The book will be exhibited at Peter Harrington, Chelsea’s world-renowned rare bookshop, later this month.
Lord Byron’s Frankenstein
Miami in Literature
Cristina García, author of Dreaming in Cuban, sits down for an interview about Miami's place in literature. This year, Miami's enjoyed the literary spotlight quite a bit: at the National Book Awards ceremony, Books & Books proprietor Mitchell Kaplan took home the Literarian Award. Likewise, the Miami Book Fair International wrapped up another successful year on November 18th.
More Anticipated Books
The eagle-eyed Scott Esposito spots fall publication dates for volumes I and II of Murakami's IQ84...and for Helen DeWitt's new novel (!), Lightning Rods, due out from New Directions.
From Text to Triage
"Megan Gething jumped in to action and tied a pair of shorts around her friend’s leg to slow blood loss, using a tip she learned from the young adult science fiction novels." A 12-year-old Massachusetts girl used what she read about creating a tourniquet from The Hunger Games to rescue her friend, reports the AP (via Book Riot). Guess the best YA books really do stick with you.
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The E-Lantic
Hey, did you hear? The Atlantic published its first ebook, The Obama Presidency, Explained.
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Carpal Tunnel is the new Broken Back
Parts of Mac McLelland's Mother Jones piece, "I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave," read like what Daniel Orozco might write had he worked in an major shipping warehouse instead of a human resources department.
First Steps
Can a book prepare you for motherhood? A reader asks this question in the Match Book column in the Times.
Talking History
On the topic of reading classics: Alberto Manguel at the New York Review of Books considers the dialogue across history that books afford. "The relationship between a reader and a book... eliminates the barriers of time and space, like 'conversations with the dead.'"
“I feel very honoured, even if I can’t help thinking I must be a fraud”
If Nicholas Wroe’s profile of Javier Marías doesn’t get you excited to read the Spanish novelist’s work, then maybe Hari Kunzru’s Year In Reading entry from this past year will do the trick.
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