Wherein I discuss Shakespearian pronunciations, the Globe theater, and most importantly the conspiracy theory that is Shakespeare. The only single line of logic holding this entire post together is "Shakespeare" the myth himself.
Get The Bird Box Scared Out Of You - Occasionally you find a book that you dig and so you tell a few people about it. Right? And then you forget that you've even read them. And when people ask whether they should read it you say... yeah, sure. It's good. But whatever you are reading right now instantly over rights that particular recommendation. MOST books are kinda like that. Right? They are good. You enjoy them... but when they are gone they lose some of that intensity.
Aaron Sorkin and Flashboys will be money Michael Lewis is the economic equivalent to Malcolm Gladwell. You push a tipping...
Escape Velocity Reading with Spritz So I was recently chatting with my father-in-law about the number of books he reads...
You Shall Know Our Velocity Eggers and Radcliffe -
Now the bigger question is, will Radcliffe pull this thing off, or will he wash out? But lately Radcliffe has taken it upon himself to become the literary go to within Hollywood. Obviously Radcliffe played the Mr. Potter in one of the biggest selling book movie productions of all time. What you may not know is that he also played starring roles in the 2007 "December Boys," based on an Australian book, a 2012 British horror movie based on the novel "The Woman in Black," and last year's "Kill Your Darlings," in which he starred as poet Allen Ginsberg. Next year, Radcliffe will play Igor in a new version of Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein." So hopefully he has learned enough to carry this movie.
Eggers Wallace Rift and Restoration? Eggers initially wrote a flaming critique of David Foster Wallace's novel Infinite Jest. Ten years later he was given the foreword to the anniversary edition of the novel. The two different perspectives on the novel are conspicuously different. Here they are together in the same place for the first time.
Human Book Recommendation So Not 1984 - So I recently stumbled across a Tumblr that I just had to share with you all. The Tumblr is called Go Book Yourself. Created by Anna James, Daniel Dalton, and Rob Goodswen, the Tumblr gives recommendations based on books you already love from a variety of genres. The concept is so retro that its fashion forward. Basically its a human recommending books. Woah. But just to give this simple concept context let's take a peek at some of the algorithm driven recommendations out there that I have done more than my fair share of playing.
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David Foster Wallace's Estate strikes back at The End of the Tour
Lauren Beukes Broken Monsters - Lauren Beukes is the amazing author who wrote The Shining Girls. If you haven't read The Shining Girls it was a time traveling, serial killer, paranormal hybrid of a novel.
The Silence A Post Apocalyptic Short Story - two people trapped and about to die learn to live in a way that few ever realize.
Epic Time Shifting Video and Glitches
Jenni Baker is doing eraser poetry on every single page of Infinite Jest. Now, admittedly, I am not a poetry nut. I love me some T.S. Elliot (Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock is my Infinite Jest equivalent in the poetry world) and possibly some E.E. Cummings. Obviously I dig Shakespeare at a level that is probably just really unhealthy. But outside of that, I'm a bit at a loss when it comes to good or bad poetry. What do I know?
Books We Love decided that we would highlight some of the best books of the year and proclaim a winner for the best book of all of 2013. Tall order, but that's how we roll around here at Books We Love. So without further delay... let us commence with a review of the literary highlights of 2013:
Jesse Eisenberg and Jason Segel to star in David Foster Wallace Movie
