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 […]
Bites: Bukowski, the death of print, Julia Wertz, WFMU
The Rumpus has published a previously unpublished forward by Charles Bukowski. Speaking of poetry, if you’ve published some, you can apply to live in Robert Frost’s farmhouse for two months next summer, and hope for osmosis. Is everyone reading Little Dorrit right now? Ann Kirschner of The Chronicle Review uses multiple text formats (four of them, actually). WP Book World’s Short Stack notes the connection between Dickens scoundrel Mr. Merdle to our 21st-century’s Mr. Madoff. Is print news really dying, […]