Hay Highlights
The Guardian Hay Festival opened last Friday–some interesting stuff, which you can read about in almost real time on their ‘Culture Vulture’ blog.
The Guardian Hay Festival opened last Friday–some interesting stuff, which you can read about in almost real time on their ‘Culture Vulture’ blog.
This week, the Lit Blog Co-Op will be discussing its spring 2006 Read This! selection, Television, by Jean-Phillippe Toussaint, translated from the French by Jordan Stump. Check it out.
Marjane Satrapi’s graphic memoir Persepolis is being made into a film by Sony, and is due out in 2007. Satrapi herself will direct it, along with Vincent Paronnaud.
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I could have sworn this had already been done, but maybe I’m mistaken: The Vagina Monologues has been staged in Arabic by Lebanese playwright Lina Khoury. You can listen to an interview with her on NPR.
Earlier this week, Powell’s unveiled its special summer promotion: a series of collectible author trading cards. There are sixteen in all. Number 1 is Aimee Bender, 2 is John Berendt, 3 is Billy Collins. The others will be announced daily, on the Powell’s blog. I wonder who lucky number 7 will be…
Jim Ruland has a piece about Flann O’Brien’s The Third Policeman on NPR. He describes the novel’s tortuous history, and talks to its publisher as well as to a local bookseller about its newfound success.