Moonlight director Barry Jenkins plans to adapt Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad as a limited-run series. In his review of the novel for our site last year, Greg Walklin gushed that “Whitehead’s brilliance is on constant display.”
The Underground Railroad: The Series
Sense and Senility
What kind of writer would Jane Austen have been if she'd lived beyond her forties? We can never know, but Freya Johnston has some ideas.
Goodreads Choice Awards
Make sure you vote for the 2011 Goodreads Choice Awards! (And make sure you join our Goodreads group afterwards!)
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Post-Lit
Though Kim Gordon is mostly known for her time in Sonic Youth, she’s also an artist and writer, one who’s racked up art projects and publications over the course of the past forty years. At Full-Stop, Hestia Peppe reviews Is It My Body?, a new collection of Gordon’s essays and other written work. It might also be a good time to read our own Anne K. Yoder on punk and revolutionary nonfiction.
Oyster Pirates
This week in book-related infographics: "Unusual Jobs of Famous Writers," from Chuck Palahniuk (diesel mechanic) to Jack London (oyster pirate).
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“Rainbow Potato Day” Has a Nice Ring
Gaia, Pale Blue Dot, Lonely Planet, etc... It's time for a new addition to Earth's list of aliases: the rainbow potato. A new map of our planet's gravity field reveals the variations in gravitational pull depending on your geographic location.
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