Quill and Quire

Book news

« Back to
Quillblog

Bookmarks: Britain’s phone booth library, Herta Müller’s “psychosis,” and the Bad Sex in Fiction Award winner

Some sundry links from across the Web:

  • Resourceful idea of the week: British village transforms traditional red phone booth into local library
  • Coming soon to a theatre near you: the book trailer for Quirk Classics’ Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters
  • Nobel Prize-winning Herta Müller “has a psychosis,” says Romanian spy
  • Neil Gaiman discusses audiobooks with David Sedaris and Martin Jarvis on NPR. Similarly, Douglas Hunter praises the e-book at The Globe and Mail and Mark Medley reviews the Kindle at the National Post
  • Nabokov’s posthumously published The Original of Laura is not a novel, says Nathaniel Rich
  • And the Bad Sex in Fiction Award goes to … Jonathan Littell’s The Kindly Ones