Recent Articles
April 1, 2012
Let’s Get 1,000 Feet on War And Peace 0
by Nick Moran
Jason Novak, brilliant penman behind last month’s brilliant Panorama of Middlemarch, has followed up that effort with an equally impressive Panorama of “Bartleby, the Scrivener.”
March 31, 2012
That Title Alone Deserves A Groan 0
by Nick Moran
A decade in the making, Val Kilmer’s one-man play about Mark Twain, Citizen Twain, will finally open this weekend. The Hollywood Reporter caught up with the actor (at a cemetery?) to talk about “his career and the landscape of America.”
March 31, 2012
Zadie Smith’s Headed to Hollywood 1
by Nick Moran
It’s a big season for Zadie Smith. While most of us eagerly await the publication of her latest book, NW, the author’s earlier work, On Beauty, is set to become a feature film. Smith’s first book to be dramatized on film was White Teeth, a UK mini-series from 2002 based on her book of the [...]
March 31, 2012
RIP Harry Crews 0
by Nick Moran
Dwight Garner, Maud Newton, and Jason Diamond are among the many to mourn the passing of Harry Crews this past week. “Few writers,” Garner writes of Crews, “could touch his authority and muscle.”
March 31, 2012
Book Fixin’ 0
by Nick Moran
Do you have books in need of binding repair? Do it yourself!
March 31, 2012
Catalog Upon Catalog 0
by Nick Moran
LibraryThing has published the catalog of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s personal library. You can check out a list of all 322 titles here (PDF). Meanwhile, from the department of “new books you can actually buy,” New Directions has published their Fall 2012 and Winter 2013 catalog (PDF) as well.
