News This Week (July 17th)
Ernest Hemingway gets his own shoes.
Harvey Pekar dies at 70, and is remembered:
- Our own Ray Gabriel
- Is Greater Than
- Partners West
- The Guardian UK
- BBC
- Pitchfork
- New Yorker Book Bench
- New York Times
Sonia Sotomayor will pubish her memoir.
The history of the word “robot”.
Mark Twain’s uncensored autobiography will be published after more than 100 years.
Raymond Scott is convicted for handling a stolen Shakespeare folio.
Douglas Coupland launches a clothing line.
Japan gets a bullet train bookmobile!
Alan Moore abandons the super hero genre.
Comic strip artist Al Williamson dies at 79.
A feminist backlash against the Twilight series.
Karl Rove starts a summer book club.
Another plagiarism suit against Harry Potter.
Listen to William Faulkner lecture on literature.
The Great Gatsby becomes a video game.
Making a case for Twilight fans.
10 best card games in literature.
Jeffery Eugenides talks about the sequel to Middlesex.
