Neil Gaiman’s 2009 Newbery medal winner, The Graveyard Book, was originally supposed to be adapted into an animated film. Now, however, it looks like Ron Howard might take the project’s reins and shoot it in live action.
The Graveyard Movie
In Defense of First Novels
What's it like to have Jacques Barzun edit your first novel? Besides terrifying, of course.
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Always Watching
Neurotic writers or friends-of-writers are likely to have asked themselves an uncomfortable question: do the writers I know use my foibles for material? At The New Statesman, Oliver Farry lists a number of proofs that they do, citing Dante’s Inferno, Madame Bovary and Beckett’s debut novel Murphy.
Get Your First Edition Fix
Brooklyn’s Greenlight Bookstore just launched a First Editions Club where members get a signed first edition of a new book each month. Some recent selections include: George Saunders’s Tenth of December (our review), Jonathan Dee’s A Thousand Pardons (our review), and Philipp Meyer’s The Son.
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Lessons for the Publishing Industry?
Eric Harvey presents The Social History of the MP3 at Pitchfork: "So omnipresent have these discussions become, in fact, that it's possible the past 10 years could become the first decade of pop music to be remembered by history for its musical technology rather than the actual music itself."
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Music To My Ears
Oh, to have cows and restaurants named after you: the life of the unusually-named NPR reporter.
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Hi
The Graveyard book is one of the best readable book the way Neil Gaiman runs through the story is amazing…I love reading this book and I am sure Howard makes a wonderful movie based on the graveyard book…Howard till now has made outstanding movies and I hope Howard will make one more outstanding movie which gives him oscars…
All the best…its best going to be the best graveyard movie…in the city I review it as best
I have read this book number of times and I love it…The Graveyard