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Story Archives of 'literature'
Hello, AIDA
By Jen Nathan on Monday, November 2, 2009.
We’re happy to report that you will soon be able to buy your very own The Dusty World of Antiquarian Books
By Emma Jacobs on Monday, November 2, 2009.
We cherish books for many reasons -- their familiarity, the memories they conjure, and the ideas they inspire. Collectors of antiquated books deal in those less tangible values as well as the material ones.
Producer Emma Jacobs spoke to sellers of rare books and American ephemera at the annual Antiquarian Book Fair at the 25th Street Armory in Manhattan. She asked them about the appeal of holding a piece of history, and how the business is transitioning into the digital age.
Dante's Inferno Meets Bazooka Joe at Boston Book Festival
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, October 22, 2009.
The first ever Boston Book Festival kicks off on Saturday. It’s a star-studded affair, with a keynote address by Orhan Pamuk. Authors Richard Russo, Anita Diamant and Dennis Lehane are among the literary world attractions. As is, inexplicably, Hollywood actress Alicia Silverstone. Venues are all near Copley Square and they are all free.
One panel caught our eye. It’s called And Now for Something Completely Different, and it’s running a little under the radar.
One of the speakers is cartoonist R. Sikoryak, and he’s the only comic artist on the bill. His new collection Masterpiece Comics delivers adaptations of literary classics, such as Crime and Punishment rendered in Bob Kane-era Batman style, or Charlie Brown as a cockroach in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis. R. Sikoryak joins us with more on Masterpiece Comics.
And if you’re interested in comics history, there’s an exhibit opening Saturday at Keene State College that’ll catch your eye. It’s called "Out of Sequence: Underrepresented Voices in American Comics" and it’s showing at the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery. The works range from early newspaper strips to digital internet comics, and feature work by minority and women artists.
Greil Marcus Takes on America
By Virginia Prescott on Thursday, October 22, 2009.
America had a name long before it had a culture. Amerige, the land of Americus, was tagged in 1507 when a poet and a cartographer pieced together a map of the Mundus Novus, including the vast land that Amerigo Vespucci stumbled upon on his way to the indies. It was America’s first invention: itself.
That creation begins A New Literary History of America edited by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors. It’s a collection of pivotal ideas, influential writings and eurkea! moments that shaped a nation. We get Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the invention of the blues. The Declaration of Independence and Linda Lovelace.
The anthology takes up films, speeches, love letters, country songs, paintings, comic strips, supreme court decisions, and rock n’roll. All made in America and all looked at with fresh eyes in two hundred essays commissioned and written for this book. Co-editor Greil Marcus, joins us from New York to tell us more about A New Literary History of America.
The Harvard Crimson: New American Lit. Vol. Sparks Debate
Los Angeles Times: 'A New Literary History of America' by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
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