We love the minimal design aesthetic of this German edition of Kafka’s Complete Works.
The beautiful simplicity of Kafka’s signature (rendered in Mister K. typeface), the use of white space, and the retrained use of color, has resulted in a brilliant new paperback collection.
The 2013 Man Booker Prize longlist, called the ‘most diverse’ in the prize’s history, was announced today.
Here is the list:
There are some familiar names here, a few we might have expected, and a few surprises. Perhaps most surprising of all, however, is who wasn’t on list.
(photo credit: http://www.themanbookerprize.com)
If you love books, and the stuff in books, from the music and places to the drinks your favorite fictional characters enjoy, then you’ll be mad for Small Demons.
Not only does Small Demons host an ever-expanding archive of literary references, but they also cross-link and connect those references to other books, creating what they call the “storyverse.”
http://youtu.be/DSlY74J6iH8
Small Demons is an amazing, and sublimely addictive, resource for the book-obsessed. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.
Per the Guardian:
Charlie Kaufman is set to write a big-screen adaptation of Slaughterhouse-Five, to be directed by Guillermo del Toro. The screenwriter behind Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Being John Malkovich is Del Toro’s preferred writer to work on his film of the 1969 Kurt Vonnegut novel.
I like the pairing. Kaufman is an inventive writer, and the adaptation of Vonnegut book should go better than his past book adaptations. Guillermo del Toro has tremendous vision as a filmmaker, and I trust him with Slaughterhouse-Five.
Of course, this is technically a remake, since Slaughterhouse-Five has already been on the big screen. The 1972 film was described by Vonnegut in his preface to Between Time and Timbuktu as, “a flawless translation of my novel Slaughterhouse-Five to the silver screen.”
As a refresher, here is the trailer:
Vonnegut went on to write in the same preface that, “I drool and cackle every time I watch that film, because it is so harmonious with what I felt when I wrote the book.”
Now it’s Kaufman and del Toro’s turn to bring Vonnegut’s classic anti-war novel, once again, to the big screen. No easy task, even if it’s been done before.
As Hollywood’s imagination seems to be running on fumes these days, film remakes and adaptations of books are becoming the rule rather than the exception.
In the instance of Slaughterhouse-Five, Hollywood is guilty of both.
And so it goes.
Welcome to New York’s Brazenhead Books, the not-so-secret, secret bookstore, hidden away in a man’s apartment in Manhattan. After he was forced out of his storefront thanks to the obscene costs of New York real estate, rather than close shop and box up his dream, the owner found an alternative that you have to see to believe.
Beautifully shot and scored, I am moved every time I watch this wonderful documentary. It captures everything that is beautiful about books.
https://vimeo.com/26293855