All the Book Deals: B.J. Novak is now venturing into the fun world of children’s literature. A Book With No Pictures, part of a two book deal from Penguin Young Readers Group, comes on the heels of his debut adult collectipn, One More Thing: Stories & Other Stories coming out on 2/4 that was also part of a two book deal from Knopf. Novak will be at BookPeople on Wednesday, Mar 12 at 7PM. The speaking portion of the event is free & open to the public. Tickets for the signing line are available with purchase of One More Thing from BookPeople.
Breaking Boundaries: Following her win for the Sydney Taylor Book Award in the young readers category, Laurel Snyder‘s book The Longest Night: A Passover Story sparked a discussion about women and girls’ roles in Jewish children’s literature.
In the World: China’s adding some support this year to it’s local indie bookstores with capital and tax exemptions in 12 citifies that includes Beijing & Shanghai.
Book Nerds Gather: Publisher’s Weekly gives a rundown of this year’s Winter Institute. The theme: some great panels and a lot of optimism for the coming year.
Apology & Settlement: Greg Mortenson author of Three Cups of Tea apologized on the Today show this week saying he, “failed in many ways…I’m going to try as hard as I can never to make the same mistakes again,” in regards to the allegations and ordered $1 million settlement to the Central Asia Institute co-founded by Morrison for allegedly misusing charitable funds.
Add Some Beauty to Your Day: Getty Publications launched a Virtual Library of more than 250 art titles on Tuesday.
Our Thoughts Go Out To: Pulitzer Prize winning poet Kay Ryan who acted as the US Poet Laureate from 2008 to 2010. She’s currently recovering in hospital from a bicycle accident that happened on the 13th.
Announced this Week: Vintage Books is slated to release a book by Guardian Foreign Correspondent Luke Harding’s book on the Edward Snowden case titled The Snowden Files at the end of February.
Another Look Ahead: Here’s a new list for you, Gave Habash of Publisher Weekly‘s “11 Most Anticipated Book Adaptations of 2014.”
First Look: Entertainment Weekly took a first look a the movie adaptation of The Giver. The first pictures were released this week that show Jeff Bridges & star Brenton Thwaites from the set of the movie. Bridges reports having waiting to make this film for over 20 years. The film is currently set to release on August 15 of this year.
What’s In a Name?: Here’s a piece from Vulture interviewing Naval Academy Professor Jack Patrick Ryan about what his life’s been like living up to his doppleganger-in-name Jack Ryan of the novels (and a fair amount of movies) by Tom Clancy. “…That’s sort of where the kind of cool part is: It’s just literature again affecting people’s lives and affecting my life personally.”
Just For Fun: BuzzFeed tests your literary lines prowess by seeing if you can “Guess The Classic Novel From Its First Sentence.”
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Sad news about Kay Ryan. I hope she makes a full recovery, as favorite poets are not easily replaced.