Michigan-based sci-fi publisher Subterranean Press is incurring Shakespearean wrath—or at least, the wrath of angry Shakespeareans—after re-releasing Orson Scott Card’s interpretation of Hamlet featuring the aging king as a child molester.
Michael Stern Hart, the founder the e-book (they were invented in 1971!), died at the age of 64 at his home in Urbana, Illinois.
They look like pianos, sewing machines, and medieval torture devices: Slate rounds up a slideshow of vintage typewriters.
He probably won’t be helping San Franciscans decide where to eat, but Yelp reviewer Cormac M. will at least be giving fans of his Western gothic namesake something to discuss over dinner. Here, his review of the Heart Wine Bar in the Mission District:
Karl nodded toward the untouched mason jar of wine.
You best drink up son, he said.
The young drifter looked away. I can’t.
Yeah you can. Go on.
The boy went silent once more, turning to the window, to the city street wet with night fog. Somewhere, a train whistling
Knopf has changed the US release date for Julian Barnes's Man Booker Prize-nominated novel, Sense of an Ending, to this October—months ahead of the original 2012 pub date.
What would a BBC-style “American World Service” look like?
