Rosamund Pike has been offered the role of Amy in David Fincher’s Gone Girl movie adaptation. Among the actors rumored to be in contention for supporting roles are Neil Patrick Harris and Tyler Perry. (Yes, you read that correctly.)
Gone Girl Gets an Amy
The Ultimate Bestseller
This week in book-related infographics: Waterstones has put together an illustrated formula for the ultimate bestseller, "a thriller tale of crime, bondage and wizardry."
Most Epic
This week in book-related infographics: an "Obsessively Detailed Map of American Literature's Most Epic Road Trips."
Measuring Detail Density
"Every story that works gets the level of description that it needs. Which isn’t to say that the level of description needed for every successful story is the same." Tobias Carroll surveys the wide variety of detail density in fiction for Electric Literature.
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The 69 Rules of Punctuation
Infographic of the Week: Electric Lit presents the 69 Rules of Punctuation in one color-coded, aesthetically-pleasing chart.
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Daenerys = Cleopatra?
This week in book-related infographics: a look at the real history behind Game of Thrones, from the Anglo-Saxon conflict to Cleopatra.
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Wild Possibilities
"Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away. And though hope can be an act of defiance, defiance isn’t enough reason to hope. But there are good reasons." Rebecca Solnit, author of Men Explain Things To Me, on maintaining hope and resisting defeatism.
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