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Roald Dahl's workspace, and 39 others.
Writing heals wounds
Time:
A week later, Broadbent and her colleagues started photographing the wounds every three to five days until they were completely healed. Eleven days after the biopsy, 76% of the group that had written about trauma had fully healed while only 42% of the other group had.
J. K. Rowling releases new novel under pseudonym
Tor:
J. K. Rowling has released a detective novel, The Cuckoo’s Calling, under the pseudonym Robert Galbriath. She told the Sunday Times of London, “I had hoped to keep this secret a little longer because being Robert Galbraith has been such a liberating experience. It has been wonderful to publish without hype or expectation and pure pleasure to get feedback under a different name.”
"As Competition Wanes, Amazon Cuts Back Discounts"
The New York Times:
Even as Amazon became one of the largest retailers in the country, it never seemed interested in charging enough to make a profit. Customers celebrated and the competition languished. Now, with Borders dead, Barnes & Noble struggling and independent booksellers greatly diminished, for many consumers there is simply no other way to get many books than through Amazon. And for some books, Amazon is, in effect, beginning to raise prices.
David Rakoff’s Last Deadline
New York Times:
“He rang me up and said, ‘The good news is, I have actually finished before my deadline’ — which is an unusual call to get from an author,” Mr. Thomas said. “And then he said, ‘The bad news is, you’ll be publishing it posthumously.’"
My job is to be a professional version of the outside world—a listener who is not attached to any of it, who doesn’t know the story of how it was written, who doesn’t know how it works, who doesn’t know why this is important to you. Every record producer does something different.
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Penguin Random House
The Verge:
The Big Six publishers have officially become the Big Five as Random House and Penguin completed a merger this morning. In a statement today, the two companies announced a new group known as Penguin Random House. The new company will include almost every part of both Random House and Penguin, creating a company with over 10,000 employees across five continents.
Here's a Tumblr of random penguin houses.
Jimmy Wales Is Not an Internet Billionaire
An interesting look into the life of Wikipedia founder, Jimmy Wales, and how much he's not worth.
New York Times:
Being the most famous traveling spokesman for Internet freedom brings in a decent living, but it’s not Silicon Valley money. It’s barely London money. Wales’s total net worth, by most estimates, is just above $1 million, including stock from his for-profit company Wikia, a wiki-hosting service. ... “Everyone makes fun of Jimmy for leaving the money on the table,” says Sue Gardner, the executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit that runs Wikipedia.
You will be relieved to learn that Arthur C. Clarke’s DNA is going where no man has gone before. Prior to his 2008 death, the science fiction legend graciously donated several strands of hair to NASA’s “first ever solar sail mission into deep space.” The craft, named Sunjammer, after a 1964 Clarke story, will launch in 2014, with hair aboard.
President Obama calls Prop 8 plaintiffs during TV interview.
In 1961 Penguin hired Romek Marber to design covers for its mystery and crime series. The Polish graphic artist, who worked previously with The Economist, devised a grid system for positioning different elements on the page. His design, referred to as the "Marber grid," laid the foundation for what a generation of readers would come to recognize as the quintessional Penguin cover.
A new app, Placing Literature, lets you find literary landmarks and bookstores wherever your travels take you.
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Review of Tao Lin's `Taipei'
Dwight Garner:
It has distant echoes of early Hemingway, as filtered through Twitter and Klonopin
Based on this review, Garner and Lin may be taking the same drugs.
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Written and directed by David Gordon Green, starring Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch.