This week in book-to-film adaptation news: Kurt Vonnegut‘s Cat’s Cradle is slated to become a TV show, “which will hopefully be long enough to fill an entire week’s worth of classes” for any desperate English teachers out there.
Cat’s TV
Amazon’s First-Half Top 10
Amazon has named its Best Books of 2010... So Far (that's January through June).
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The Boss’s Papers
Bruce Springsteen's archive is headed to Monmouth University, which is located in his hometown: Long Branch, New Jersey.
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Literary One-Hit Wonders
Second Act lists the renowned literary one-hit wonders, including John Kennedy Toole, Sylvia Plath and Ralph Ellison. (via AuthorScoop)
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Old Writers, New Media
Which convergence between classic author and modern technology is more off-putting: the University of Virginia's William Faulkner recordings, or this YouTube video of Leo Tolstoy sawing wood?
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Gifts for the Bookish
The New Yorker Book Bench has posted its 2010 Holiday Gift Guide.