How do we map our experiences? Where You Are (our review) attempts to answer this but ends up raising an interesting relationship between print and online story space. At Music & Literature, “Considering print books have been around for over five hundred years, online publishing is still in its infancy. Much of the map remains blank.” Pair with: Larsen’s essay on the power of the infographic.
Uncharted Story Space
New Fiction by a Classic Writer
New Directions has just released The Complete Stories of Brazilian legend Clarice Lispector, newly translated by Katrina Dodson and edited by Benjamin Moser. There are eight stories in the collection that had never before appeared in English: "Covert Joy," "Remnants of Carnival," "Brasília," "Beauty and the Beast or The Big Wound, "One Day Less" (one of the two final stories left in manuscript at Lispector's death), "Gertrudes Asks for Advice," "Another Couple of Drunks," and "The Escape." Check out Magdalena Edwards's Millions review of the collection.
LA Story
Los Angeles for beginners: A BookForum syllabus.
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Mr. Sandman, Bring Me a Dream
How did Neil Gaiman and Dave McKean create one of DC's most popular comics in history? The Guardian finds out the inspiration behind The Sandman. McKean shares the stories behind his favorite covers, and Gaiman also addresses his resemblance to Dream. "I suppose he looks like me, though. But that's one of those peculiar things where you gradually start to look like your dog."
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