Recommended reading: The Believer interviews Claudia Rankine about Citizen: An American Lyric, the relationship between art and literature and the importance of “keeping present the forgotten bodies.”
Keeping Present the Forgotten
Bookstore Pricing Wars
E-book pricing wars continue. Sony tries to hit the Kindle where it hurts by offering cheaper e-books. Meanwhile, $0 is becoming an important price point at the Kindle store.
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One Voice, Two Voice
The unreliable narrator is a bit of a cliche, but it’s still possible to write a good story that features one. At The Rumpus, Alex Dueben talks with Robert Boswell about his new book, which uses a technique Boswell calls “unreliable omniscience.”
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Copyeditors Required
"On Thursday, an uncorrected proof of her debut novel, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, with the writer’s name was misspelled as “JA Rowling”, became the muddled copy to fetch four figures at auction." The Guardian presents a survey of famous literary typos and malapropisms. See also our own Edan Lepucki's interview with her beloved copyeditor Susan Bradanini Betz.
Best Books ‘So Far’
Amazon just picked its 2011 "Best Books of the Year So Far."
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Adaptation Progress Report
This week in book-to-film adaptations: Meredith Goldstein rounds up some possible and upcoming projects for The Boston Globe, including adaptations of The Goldfinch (which we cast here) and our own Emily St. John Mandel's Station Eleven.
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As Bad As The Worst
Believe it or not, there may be a connection between Walt Whitman and US drones.
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