Announcing The Reading Light, a student-run book review web zine from Drew University. For the record, they accept review submissions from non-Drew students.
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(via Moleskinerie)
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Iranian paper banned over cartoon – A state-owned Iranian newspaper is banned after publishing a cartoon showing a cockroach speaking Azeri.
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McClatchy Sells Philadelphia Newspapers.
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Hemingway papers link Cuba and US:
Cuba is sending the US copies of more than 20,000 papers relating to the Nobel Prize winning American writer Ernest Hemingway.
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India seeks to save its treasure of manuscripts. (via Rare Book News)
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American kids may not be reading many books these days, but prisoners in Calcutta sure are.
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In keeping with the prison theme, NPR says Peter Carey’s ‘Theft’ Will Arrest Your Attention.
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Looking for intelligent summer reading (presumably while out of prison)? Check out Scott Esposito’s recommendations of lit in translation.
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The Written Nerd reflects on the various views on indie bookstores. My view on standard vs indie bookstores is similar to my view on big vs small publishers. Each has a different function and it depends on the needs of the reader/customer where to go. I personally vear towards indie/small, but frequent Borders because there’s no indie bookstore near where I currently live. Don’t worry, I’m moving soon.
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I haven’t commented on the NYTBR top 25 book list for two reasons. 1: Top blah-blah lists annoy me. 2: I don’t have anything new to say about it. I agree with just about every bookish opinion out there, like this and this and this.
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GAM3R 7H30RY is an open access book being written in real time. It’s a collaboration between Future of the Book and McKenzie Wark, plus readers/commenters. (via Open Access News)
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While the idea of altering a book is anathema to my uptight self, I have to give props to the six folks across the U.S. who got together to collaborate on an altered book project for the Etsy CoProduction Contest. The proceeds from the sale of the book, Fantastic Emblage, will go to the New Orleans Public Library.
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‘French Book Art’ at the Public Library:
“French Book Art” retells the story of the French avant-garde on a relatively level playing field. The scale of books dictates intimacy and thwarts monumentality, making them inherently egalitarian. And illustration preordains collaboration, even when a single person functions as both writer and artist, as with Michaux. Words and pictures must bend to each other; so must poets and artists.
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e-Marginalia interviews Jen Leo, a travel editor and writer:
As for editing, I’ve learned more about writing through reading other people’s stories than I have from writing my own. When you’re reading someone else’s writing, it’s easier to identify what doesn’t work, than it is to write something that does work. Seeing the holes in a piece, teaches you what to avoid in your own writing.
(via World Hum)
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The Velveteen Rabbi shares her experiences about asseming and publishing chaplainbook.
