Photo: © 2015 Mary Murphy and Company LLC New York's PBS flagship station THIRTEEN is all over the release of Harper Lee's "Go Set a Watchman," her much anticipated follow-up novel to "To Kill A Mockingbird". THIRTEEN Days of Harper Lee is a 13-day, multi-platform event celebrating the release of "Go Set a Watchman" that runs through Friday, July 17. As part of the festivities Harper Lee: American Masters documentary filmmaker and author Mary McDonagh Murphy met with Harper Lee and company on June 30, 2015, in Monroeville, Alabama prior to the publication of Lee’s second novel, Go Set a Watchman. In an American Masters web...
A big book in the Texas landscape
"Texas Landscape" by Eric McGehearty, 2008 steel & auto paint 7 x 6 x 3 feet Lives at Windland's Park in Midland, Texas
Of Interest: Where I’m Reading From, Regrettable Superheroes, The Librarian, Compulsion, naked in the woods
Here's the latest batch of recently published books that we've enjoyed reading here at Book Patrol. Where I'm Reading From: The Changing World of Books by Tim Parks The New York Review of Books, 2015. Why do we need fiction? Why do books need to be printed on paper, copyrighted, read to the finish? Do we read to challenge our vision of the world or to confirm it? Has novel writing turned into a job like any other? In Where I’m Reading From, the novelist and critic Tim Parks ranges over decades of critical reading—from Leopardi, Dickens, and Chekhov, to...
For your viewing pleasure: Booklandia.TV, a new literary-focused Web channel from the University of Oregon
We noted there are food channels, sports channels and animal channels. However, we could not identify a book channel of any significance. Given the role of books in our culture, the idea made sense...Even people who don’t consider themselves avid readers recognize the influence of literature in their lives, from texts required in school to popular written works that make their way into film and television - faculty adviser Ed Madison Tough to argue with that reasoning. It also helps being 2 hours away from one of the best independent bookstores on the planet. Booklandia.TV is partnering with Powell's Books and...
Project REVEAL: The Harry Ransom Center takes a huge digital step forward
One of the kinks in the harried digital evolution for university special collections and archives has been the focus on getting their best stuff processed first. This selective approach to digitization, which of course has its roots in the pervasive financial and human resource constraints faced by most repositories, can have a profound long-term effect on what information finds the public realm. Project REVEAL, which stands for Read and View English & American Literature, by The Harry Ransom Center hopes to change that. For Project REVEAL the entire manuscript collections of 25 of some of the best-known writers from nineteenth and early twentieth century...