News This Week (September 4th)
Jonathan Franzen picks his favorite 4 novels.
Top ten type faces of the decade.
The Oxford English Dictionary will not be printed again.
John Cusack will star in Raven, a film about Edgar Allan Poe.
A 6-year-old gets a 23-book deal with Strategic Book Publishing, but it may not be a very good deal.
Berlin is “bombed” with poetry.
Heart of Darkness is now a graphic novel.
JK Rowling gives £10million for multiple sclerosis research clinic.
Aug. 24 is probably not really the Bible’s anniversary.
Is the crime novel the only real social fiction?
Mockingjay sells more than 450,000 it’s first week.
There will be a sequel to Kick-Ass?
The Sandman is in the early stages of a TV adaptation.
Archie gets it’s first gay character.
Silvia Plath fans ask for a more fitting memorial.Novelist Vance Bourjaily dies at 87.
McSweeney’s sponsors two contests.
