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The Book Show recently broadcast James Gleick’s closing address to the Sydney Writers’ Festival, in which the author of The Information discusses the future of the printed book:
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Oh. My. Gosh — Jon Klassen’s lovely illustrations and designs for the movie adaptation of Coraline.
Schadenfreude — Literary agent Nathan Bransford on the “death” of the publishing business:
There are definitely problems with the business… But the industry is not stupid. Like any massive industry that is comprised of tens of thousands of individuals, it is a human institution with some institutional problems and weaknesses. But despite a reading public whose appetite for books is not growing at a particularly fast rate, despite tremendous competition from other media, we’re still here, and we’re doing way better than a lot of industries, including ones comprised of supposed geniuses and masters of the universe.
Japan’s 21st Century Cultural Ambassador — Roland Kelts, author of Japanamerica, profiles Haruki Murakami for 3:AM Magazine.
Isolating the Commonplace — The New York Times Book Review‘s photography editor Jeffery Scales discusses the William Eggleston photograph used illustrate Edmund White’s review of Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by (the improbably — yet charmingly — named) Wells Tower.
Give me Twitter or give me death — The Globe and Mail‘s Ian Brown possibly overthinks things…
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