This year, the traditional Nobel Lecture in Literature has been replaced with a video of the 2013 prizewinner, Alice Munro, talking about her work. “Alice Munro: In Her Own Words” was shown at the Swedish Academy on Saturday, and is now available online.
On Sunday, New Yorker editor David Remnick told a conference on digital media that he didn’t think New York magazine’s recent move to a bi-weekly was a good sign for the magazine. He was also politely skeptical about New York editor Adam Moss’s comment that he was “pretty excited” about the online opportunities that New York’s print cutback would allow: “I don’t think that Adam, who is an editor I respect enormously, enormously, is happy about this.” Remnick said. He also revealed that in 1998, when the New Yorker was cash strapped, he considered making it a bi-weekly, but decided against it, because, he “felt that we would lose our place in terms of currency.”
David L. Ulin remembers Nelson Mandela through his books.
We’ve just heard from Sheila Heti about a new project. She’s wrapping up her collaboration with Heidi Julavits and Leanne Shapton, Women in Clothes, and is turning her attention from the closet to the bookshelf. She is soliciting readers to open up about the books they live with, and is hoping to discover an unacknowledged canon. To participate, readers can send a list of every author on their bookshelf (but not on their e-readers!) to [email protected].