Pearson, the education and publishing giant, You can |http://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/535865/flip-side-by-james-franco-and-david-shields/#|already pre-order| Flip-Side: Real and Imaginary Conversations with Lana Del Rey, the latest provocation by Renaissance man James Franco, for whom just publishing a single LDR-themed poem apparently wasn’t nearly enough. His co-author is David Shields of Reality Hunger fame. If the concept doesn’t seem promising, perhaps you’re forgetting this special issue of The New Inquiry; come to think of it, we could all do worse than to reread that, and leave Franco’s version alone.
Angelina Jolie is directing an adaptation of Loung Ung’s memoir of Cambodia under Pol Pot for Netflix, who will release it late next year.
A trick “worthy of Bugs Bunny himself”—Michael Chabon salutes E. L. Doctorow.