“The executors of Maurice Sendak’s will have not complied with his wishes to bequeath his multimillion-dollar rare-book collection to the Rosenbach Museum and Library and for the revered author and illustrator’s work to continue to be displayed at the Rosenbach. So claims a lawsuit filed last week in northern Fairfield County, Conn., [by] the Rosenbach of the Free Library of Philadelphia.”
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What Is – And Isn’t – Clickbait?
“The Oxford English Dictionary defines clickbait thusly: ‘(On the Internet) content whose main purpose is to attract attention and encourage visitors to click on a link to a particular web page.’ More colloquially, Josh Benton of Harvard’s Neiman Journalism Lab defined clickbait on Twitter (on the Internet) as ‘noun: things I don’t like on the Internet’.”
Surprise Winner Of Canada’s $100K Giller Prize
Montreal music blogger Sean Michaels took the award for his debut novel, Us Conductors, a thoroughly fictionalized account of the life of Leon Theremin, inventor of you-know-what.
How The Bond Between Two Gay Men Produced Some Of World War I’s Finest Poetry
When Siegfried Sassoon met Wilfred Owen at a war hospital in Scotland.
A Typeface Designed To Help Dyslexics Read
Designer Christian Boer (who is himself dyslexic): “When they’re reading, people with dyslexia often unconsciously switch, rotate and mirror letters in their minds. Traditional typefaces make this worse, because they base some letter designs on others, inadvertently creating ‘twin letters’ for people with dyslexia.”
A Big-Name Editor Leaves Amazon Publishing For The Traditional Publishing World, Dealing A Blow
“His defection comes as Amazon is struggling to maintain its standing with writers and agents as hostile pricing negotiations drag on with the publisher Hachette, and a growing group of prominent authors are lobbying the Justice Department to investigate Amazon for antitrust violations.”
The Final Party For Amazon’s New York Literary Editor Speaks Volumes
“All the thriving genre imprints are out in Seattle.”
Books Are Dying! Except That PBS Is Streaming Live Coverage Of The Miami Book Fair
Yes. Three days of live-streamed book fair: “Jeffrey Brown, culture correspondent of ‘PBS NewsHour,’ and the author Kelly Corrigan will host, jumping from any one of the dozen-plus simultaneous live events to taped interviews and conversations in the studio.”
Disney Has Made Fairy Tales Much Less Scary – But Authors And Illustrators Are Taking Them Back
“I also find Hans Christian Anderson himself fascinating, because he’s such an unworked out man. He was dyslexic, he was gay, he had a big chip on his shoulder, he was extraordinary and very visual – and he did something with fairy tales that was completely different.”
How Amazon Ended Up As Literary Enemy No. 1 (And What Happens Next)
“It wasn’t always this way. When Amazon first appeared, in the mid-90s, mailing books out of the Seattle garage of its founder, Jeff Bezos, it was greeted with enthusiasm. The company seemed like a useful counterweight to the big bookstore chains that had come to dominate the book-retailing landscape.”