Literarture: March 2008 Archives
This year's Salon du livre honored Israeli literature on the occasion of Israel's 60th anniversary, a choice, that became controversial with Arab and Muslim countries threatening to boycott, with Israeli writers threatening to boycott because of the controversy and with the bookfair going off quite well, until a fake bomb threat was called in at the end of the event. Lauren Elkin shares her experience of the Salon on the NBCC blog, Critical Mass
Richard Price has sold movie rights to "Lush Life" to Scott Rudin/Miramax. Price will write the screenplay.
Edward Rothstein's essay on public libraries, their past, present, and future, is worth reading and gives one a lot to think about it. Actually I found it quite inspiring. I've been mulling over my feelings about Dutton's bookstore's closing for an imminent column, and Rothstein's essay made me consider the ways in which libraries may or do pick up some of the slack from the closing of independent bookstores.
Also interesting article/interview with V.S. Naipaul in the UK Guardian.
Edward Rothstein's essay on public libraries, their past, present, and future, is worth reading and gives one a lot to think about it. Actually I found it quite inspiring. I've been mulling over my feelings about Dutton's bookstore's closing for an imminent column, and Rothstein's essay made me consider the ways in which libraries may or do pick up some of the slack from the closing of independent bookstores.
Also interesting article/interview with V.S. Naipaul in the UK Guardian.
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