Bumble-Ardy, the new book by beloved (and proud-to-be-cranky) author and illustrator Maurice Sendak, went on sale this week. Sendak talked to the New York Times about his career, the controversial nature of some of his books, and what makes a children’s book a children’s book.
A brand new collection of never-before-published poetry and illustrations by beloved author Shel Silverstein also went on sale this week. NPR covered the release of Every Thing On It with these four poems from the book, which you’ll find upstairs in BookKids.
The Millions has a fabulous piece this week by Ann Napolitano, the author of A Good Hard Look, about writing a novel about Flannery O’Connor and then reading from it to a collection of O’Connor’s friends, family and neighbors on a one-hundred-and-six degree night in Georgia.
Have $175,000 lying around? Sotheby’s is set to auction an extremely rare and highly valuable first edition dust jacket of The Great Gatsby.
Mother Jones has this conversation with Craig Thompson, author of the bestselling graphic novel Blankets, about his new graphic novel, Habibi.
Mental Floss looks at the history of Little Golden Books.
Amazon has come under fire after a report in the newspaper Morning Call alledged that the online retailer was mistreating its warehouse workers in Pennsylvania by forcing them to work in stifling conditions during a heat wave, leading to workers having to be carried out on stretchers. Amazon has since responded by installing air conditioners, which were not previously present in the warehouse.
Sylvia Plath and will soon have her own stamp.
The Mark Twain story Eve’s Diary has been formally “unbanned” by a Massachusetts library in honor of Banned Books Week.
Penguin will publish Neil Young’s memoir in the fall of 2012.
Simon and Schuster announced they’ll publish Arnold Schwarzenegger’s autobiography.
The New Yorker’s Book Bench blog asked if you can be a writer without being a reader, and generated some interesting responses in analogy form.
And here at BookPeople? We learned how to talk like a llama, hung out with a rock star and talented artist, and ate way too much (insanely good) Moroccan food. Good times. Hope you have the same this weekend.
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