Seattle-ists! Pencil in The Stranger's event with author/director/performance artist Miranda July at Neumo's on May 17 (via The Stranger).
In the meantime, check out the movie she wrote, directed, and starred in.
That's right--her name's July, her book comes out in May, and she's awesome all year round.
GalleyCat and the Freakonomics blog speculate on which title Oprah will announce as her next book club pick this Wednesday. GalleyCat has its money on Never Let Me Go while Steven Dubner bets on The Year of Magical Thinking. What say you, dear readers?Check out this trailer for the film based on the novel The Namesake by Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri. The film opens on March 9, but I suggest you get the book from Zooba first.
A moving exploration of identity, the novel is a great follow-up to her debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies.
-Three Rivers Press (Random House) inks deal for biography of troubled indie rock artist Cat Power (via Publishers Marketplace)
-Hollywood glamorizes Jane Austen in the upcoming film Becoming Jane (via Bookninja)
-Columbia University's writing seminar spawns book deals (via NPR)
-Salon advises a novelist who fears getting published (Salon via Mediabistro)
-Philip Roth wins PEN/Faulkner award for Everyman (via San Francisco Chronicle)
-Stewart and Colbert drive book sales (via New York Times)
-HarperCollins launches book widget (via GalleyCat)
Lest we forget infamous publisher Judith Regan and the cancelled O.J. Simpson book, NBC airs a new episode of Law & Order tonight about a "high profile publisher"...found murdered.
Scoff if you will, but have you ever inspired a crime drama episode? Or even, say, a chick lit tell-all?
This year's Oscars are two gay cowboys shy of being awesome. Nonetheless, don't miss the books that inspired last year's best films.
-James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia
-Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth
-Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada
-Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness
Jeffrey Blitz, of Spellbound fame, will shoot a documentary following lotto winners set to release in 2008.
Daniel Gilbert discusses the perils of hitting the jackpot and other unexpected misfortunes in his book Stumbling on Happiness. It's a great read for the Malcolm Gladwell set. Check it out!
Factory Girl, the biopic on socialite and Andy Warhol muse Edie Sedgwick, opened in New York this past weekend. Sienna Miller and Guy Pearce give great performances despite the glib screenplay.
For a more complex look at the tragic lives of bluebloods, check out these rich reads.
-Rich Cohen, Sweet and Low
-Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep
-Sean Wilsey, Oh the Glory of It All
Fox News' 10 p.m. time slot ratings lead over Anderson Cooper went from 174% in August 2005 down to 18% in January 2007.
So there. Cooper still rocks the news while serving as an emo icon, writing a book, and saving the world.