by | Jun 20, 2009 | Literary News
from The New York Times A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library Ethan Pines for The New York Times “I don’t believe in colleges and universities,” Ray Bradbury, 88, said. “I believe in libraries.” By JENNIFER STEINHAUER VENTURA, Calif. — When you are pushing 90,...
by | Jun 10, 2009 | Literary News
from Bruce Sterling’s BEYOND THE BEYOND @ WIRED.com Eighteen Challenges in Contemporary Literature By Bruce Sterling 1. Literature is language-based and national; contemporary society is globalizing and polyglot. 2. Vernacular means of everyday...
by | Jun 8, 2009 | Bright Shiny News, Literary News, Mirth
from Coudal Partners via MediaBistro A QUICK CONTEST FROM WHERE WE DO OUR BEST THINKING Booking Bands The walls in the washroom at our studio are all chalkboards. It was Susan’s idea and after she spent a weekend painting them up, not much happened. An...
by | Jun 8, 2009 | Literary News, Los Angeles
from The LA Times Susan Farley / For The Times COLUMN ONE The typist’s tale of ‘Last Tycoon’ Years after ‘Gatsby,’ F. Scott Fitzgerald’s secretary got to witness the second act of an author who didn’t believe in them. By David...
by | Jun 5, 2009 | Literary News
from The Guardian UK First edition of Ulysses sells for record £275,000 Well-preserved copy of James Joyce’s 1922 classic had been unread, except for the racy bits Mark Brown, arts correspondent guardian.co.uk, Thursday 4 June 2009 16.49 BST Article history...
by | Jun 4, 2009 | Literary News
from CNN Lawsuit targets ‘rip-off’ of ‘Catcher in the Rye’ By Doug Gross, CNN (CNN) — Reclusive author J.D. Salinger has emerged, at least in the pages of court documents, to try to stop a novel that presents Holden Caulfield, the...
