News This Week (July 31st)
Read a Brett Easton Ellis interview.
Penguin uses Kite Runner to generate aide for Afghanistan.
See the comic-book art of Jim Steranko.
A scheme is in the works to send books to children.
The top medical graphic novels.
See the rejected covers for The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo.
Robert Kirkman starts a new imprint to help new comers to the comic book industry.
Nicholson Baker’s letter to John Updike.
4 safety deposit boxes containing Kafka’s manuscripts are finally opened, and a judge rules the contents should be made public.
Archipelago Books is awarded $25,000 by Amazon.com to translate a polish book.
Woody Allen makes his own audiobooks.
Stan Lee becomes his own character.
The future of The Little Prince includes a 52-part animated series.
Penguin celebrates it’s 75th anniversary.
Stieg Larsson is the first author to reach 1 million ebooks sold on Amazon.
Nick Cave is writing a remake of The Crow.
Some new from ComicCon: Recap, Slide Show, Films
Elton John is working on an Animal Farm musical.
World War Z will become a film, with Brad Pitt.
Redesigned book covers are sometimes awesome. Sometimes not.
Maurice Sendak gives $1 million to the Jewish Board of Family & Children’s Services.
Alan Moore refuses a deal with DC comics that would have given him the rights to The Watchmen.
There is a Hemingway look-alike contest.
A children’s book about Sarah Palin is postponed indefinitely.
The Great Gatsby video game is maybe not that awesome.
Pride and Prejudice Fight Club (yes, it is a mash-up video).
Neil Gaiman recommends 3 children’s books.
Apple is accused of censorship (again).
The art of filling a bookshelf.
