The second trailer for the upcoming adaptation of Where The Wild Things Are. *sniff* I’m not crying… it’s just been raining… on my face…*sniff*
• Several artists talk about the politics of book design and the fate of their favourite rejected covers.
• Speaking of cover art, the huge kerfuffle over the recent Justine Larbalestier title, Liar has been resolved. Bloomsbury has announced that the novel will be rejacketed to correctly reflect the fact that the protagonist is black, not white as previously depicted.
• Speaking of touchy topics, German Jews want the sixty year ban on ‘Mein Kampf’ annulled, and have called for the production of a new, academic edition aimed at challenging the assertions Hitler made within.
• Books often become movies. But when movies become books – then things start getting real complicated…
• There are good books. There are bad books. There are even good bad books. But why is it that the bad bad books keep you coming back for more? In other, completely unrelated news, the Dan Brown hype machine (fuelled, I imagine, by broken dreams and pixie tears) is beginning to stir. You know you want it!
• Where have all the intellectuals gone?
• Biggles saves pilot. For reals.
• Bookpocalypse® Article of the Week: Are textbooks history?
• Modern life ate my focus.
