- George Graham
Bear breaks into Colorado house, plays the piano but not very well Alaska Dispatch News
The blue dogs of Mumbai: industrial waste blamed for colourful canines Guardian
Bear breaks into Colorado house, plays the piano but not very well Alaska Dispatch News
The blue dogs of Mumbai: industrial waste blamed for colourful canines Guardian
The economic value of birds
Tucked away in the spare bedroom of a terrace in Sydney's Inner West lies an extraordinary collection. It's a treasure trove of priceless Australian nostalgia that almost certainly would have been thrown out if it weren't for one man's passion for the past
via my former neighbour Stephen who used to play in the bank Talking Heads
via my former neighbour Stephen who used to play in the bank Talking Heads
Book Review: The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
Extracts from Grant’s Personal Memoirs, with some lessons for the present day
Border Force urges more power to stop illegal tobacco smugglers
Mystery Great Colin Dexter Dies
Colin Dexter has died, age 86. He created the character Chief Inspector Morse, the beloved, curmudgeonly detective based in Oxford who likes opera, poetry, and has a fiendishly clever mind.
The first book in the series isLast Bus to Woodstock was published in 1975. The final book, #13, The Remorseful Day, was published 24 years later in 1999. The books were adapted into the Inspector Morse TV series that ran on PBS from 1987 until 2000. The show spun-off two sequels, one about Morse’s partner, Inspector Lewis, and one about a younger Morse,Endeavour.
“He was one of the greatest crime novelists of the 20th century and deserves to be ranked alongside Chandler, Christie and Doyle,” Andrew Gulli, the editor of the mystery magazine The Strand, told the NYT.
The paper also reports that he won two Golden Dagger awards from the Crime Writers’ Association of Britain and, in 1997, he received the organization’s lifetime achievement award, the Diamond Dagger.
Dexter killed off Morse in his last book, using for the title a line from an A. E. Housman poem, “How Clear, How Lovely Bright,” as a way of saying goodbye:
How heavily it dies
Into the west away;
Past touch and sight and sound
Not further to be found,
How hopeless under ground
Falls the remorseful day.
Opera House gets new reef
The Booker longlist, announced today, is “thronged with literary titans, whose combined trophy cabinet would include the Pulitzer, the Costa, the Baileys, the Folio, the Impac and the Goldsmiths prizes,” notes the Guardian, but it also manages to squeeze in three debut novels.
Cold River etc Movie/TV Adaptations, Updates
Although EarlyWord is no longer publishing on a daily basis, we continue to update the resources listed on the right
Since July 3rd, we have added new information on 60 projects to our spreadsheet of Upcoming Movies & TV Based on Books. Download a spreadsheet to browse just the newest lists here,Adaptation Updates.
The most intriguing book and TV news doesn’t appear on that list, however, since it’s not an adaptation. It’s PBS’s announcement last week of “The Great American Read” (working title), an eight-part series, with the ambitious goal of getting people to vote for “America’s Best Loved Book,” set to kick off in May, 2018
Also not based on a book, but arriving with several tie-ins, as well as plenty of display opportunities, is Ken Burns’s documentary The Vietnam War which debuts on PBS on 9/17/17 (included in ourcatalog of tie-ins here).
Study: How Our Creativity Changes As We Get Older
"How does the ability to come up with unusual ideas change as we grow older? Does it begin to flag in adolescence? Before then? To investigate these questions, we and our colleagues recently conducted several experiments, which we relate in a new paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences." …[Read More]
Baby boomers hitting the bottle and bongs at alarming levels, health experts warnPaging Madame Defarge:Louise Linton, wife of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, just turned her Instagram private after posting this (h/t @skenigsberg)pic.twitter.com/beakVnAhhu— Margarita Noriega (@margarita) August 22, 2017He’s married upscale trash. Anyone who brags about brand names has no class.
I have a hard time getting rid of books, and if you’re reading this space, you probably do too. As Summer Brennan put it, “what kind of degenerate only wants to own 30 books (or fewer) at a time on purpose?” Not anyone I know. But apparently, you only have to own one thousand books to qualify as a book hoarder. Which seems a bit low, to be honest—unless we’re talking about one thousand books in a New York City one-bedroom, in which case, sure.
- 10 FAMOUS BOOK HOARDERS June 22, 2017 by Emily Temple
Michiko Kakutani– feared, respected, mercurial – is stepping away from her role at The Times. Is this the dawn of a new age of book reviewing?... Door Stoppers
LIZ SHELD ON WOLF BLITZER’S MEMORY PROBLEM: “I really can’t think of anything to say about this. Just speechless.”
Nobody ever called Liz “speechless” before.