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Bookmarks: Terminatrix Palin, Wild Things art, and the interactive Proust questionnaire

Sundry links from around the Web:

  • Sarah Palin’s HarperCollins editor has a double life, The Daily Beast reports. He also helped work on the satirical title published during Palin’s VP run, Terminatrix: The Sarah Palin Chronicles
  • Just before the Oct. 16 opening of the long-awaited Where the Wild Things AreVice Magazine has compiled a gallery of WtWTA-inspired artwork by 24 of its favourite artists; The New York Times wonders if kids actually “get” Maurice Sendak’s much-celebrated tale; and Newsweek interviews Sendak, screenwriter Dave Eggers, and director Spike Jonze on fear, childhood, and Mickey Mouse, among other things
  • In order to promote its forthcoming bookVanity Fair now makes its infamous Proust questionnaire available as an interactive game
  • Google vs. Angela Merkel: The Guardian reports that the German chancellor has intervened in the debate and is appealing for more international co-operation on copyright protection
  • Today, starting at 12 EST, fantasy novelist Neil Gaiman and a thousand Twitter followers will collaborate on an audiobook script. Sponsored by BBC Audiobooks America, the “round-robin interactive storytelling experience” takes place on this Twitter page