Surely, you were at least supposed read, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" at some point. You know, that sad soap dish of a man who measured out his life in coffee spoons. If, unlike me, you didn't bother to memorize it when you were a morose 19-year-old then follow along here.
Everyone is going to hate this! Nobody's going to sit through this shit. Except, maybe, InternSugar1? Well I sat through it twice.
Sorry for the hiatus. Ah've been readin'. I have book news! If you haven't read Sloane Crosley's I Was Told There'd Be Cake, don't worry. You won't have to! The Random House/Vintage-publicist-miraculously-turned author just sold her stories to HBO to be turned into a series. No word on who she knows there.
Okay. Fine. Her book is hilarious.
Original! Bored to Death will be a half-hour (thank god) comedy about a "a Brooklyn writer who nurses a painful breakup by acting out his dream to live as a character out of a Raymond Chandler novel" that I will watch anyway.
j/k! About the 140 characters. DailyLit is starting a reading group on Twitter by sending out short, serialized installments of popular books. What to start with? Pride and Prejudice by Jane (see!) Austen. And some other stuff.
If you're not in the business of reading for money or in the pleasure of taking your porn with vampires, you might not know that paranormal romances have been shapeshifting their way onto bestseller lists for years now. Women devour them. They also, why I don't know, adore Jane Austen. It's hard to believe these are the same women, but how many can there be?
Enough, apparently. Just sold and soon to be published is a novel about an “an undead Jane Austen, frustrated by nearly 200 years of writer’s block and 116 rejections of an unpublished novel she finished just before turning into a vampire."
Actually! I'll read it.
Domino to release book this fall. Hopefully, these plans do not point to the fate of the once-promising, twice-published Budget Living and its fall.
Filled with floor plans, before-and-after shots, and a wealth of lush photography, it will include all of the magazine's popular elements: unexpected expert decorating tips, eclectic style juxtapositions, shrewd shopping strategies, and ideas drawn from sources as far apart as Louis XIV and Le Corbusier. [via decor8]
Sounds like three printings!
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