The story behind Stanley Kubrick’s never made epic, Napoleon is now in $700 dollar book form thanks to Taschen.

• New York Magazine wrote about it
• Human Resources is a bit apprehensive about anybody else attempting a film about the tiny French leader.

Lit.

• Dear New York Times Book Review, Levi Asher thinks you look “like a Christmas catalog“.

• If you have a book called Sex Dungeon for Sale, the only natural thing to do to celebrate it’s coming out is to have a coloring contest.

• Tough economic times? A letter from George Washington goes for over three million,  and one of Edgar Allan Poe’s manuscripts goes for $830, 500.

• NPR gives us their picks for the best foreign fiction of 2009.

• Is the internet is killing storytelling?  Lit Drift wants answers dammit!

The “look” of literature.

• Field Notes recently introduced a limited edition series of their classic memo books in muted greys and blues.  (Thanks Cool Hunting)

• When bad covers happen to good books.

Fiction up at…

• Bartleby Snopes, by Brian Ted Jones and Andrew Bowen

Sunday morning jams.

• WFMU digs around for old clips of I’ve Got a Secret, and find garage rock goodness.

• “One of the finest musicians to emerge from the sleepy locale of Denton, TX ” is not to be confused with “The Best Ever Death Metal Band in Denton“.

• Ray Davies on billiards.