New this week: The Collected Poems of Denise Levertov; a new translation of Tolstoy’s The Death of Ivan Ilyich; and the complete letters of Sigmund Freud.
Tuesday New Release Day: Levertov; Tolstoy; Freud
Crime and Punishment and Singing
Fyodor Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment is getting the musical treatment, and though "it does not seem the most likely candidate to provide musical fun for all the family" for a long list of reasons - "heavy drinking, prostitution, a double axe murder and hours of psychological torment" - we're already planning our trips to Moscow for the premier. This is also a good opportunity to revisit the debate over who's greater, Dostoevsky or Tolstoy?
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Woolf Tones
Still not sure if you want to keep a diary? Perhaps the testimony of Virginia Woolf can convince you.
A Day of Feast Among Years of Famine
In the spirit of giving thanks, our own Bill Morris recaps a memory for which he is especially grateful: watching the Detroit Lions kick the ever-loving steam out of their arch rival Green Bay Packers.
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Tuesday New Release Day: Didion, Freud, Obreht
This week's big book release is Joan Didion's memoir Blue Nights. Also out is Esther Freud's Lucky Break and new in paperback, Téa Obreht's The Tiger's Wife (our review).
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Conferenceness
"Can a conference really transcend its essential conferenceness?" For a conference on Geoff Dyer, that's the essential question, and the Los Angeles Review of Books has an answer. Pair with Dyer's Year in Reading and Janet Potter's review of Another Great Day at Sea.
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Serializing in the Digital Age
The University of Michigan Press will be serializing two novels on their Facebook account. Previously, authors such as Brandon J. Mendelson have experimented serializing their novels 140 characters at a time. He even has some tips for doing so.