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July 31, 2013

Book News: “Artemis Fowl” Films, Jack Kerouac’s Letters

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Harvey Weinstein and Disney are reuniting to adapt the popular children’s-book series “Artemis Fowl.”

The newest battle in the e-book pricing war is between Amazon and Overstock.com, which announced that it would sell books at ten per cent below Amazon’s prices for a week, which resulted in Amazon reducing some of its book prices significantly during that time.

“Aldous Huxley once claimed that if you took the avifauna out of the English verse you would have to dispose of half the poetic canon.” Mark Cocker on the relationship between people and birds.

Natalie Zemon Davis recalls how an experience with the F.B.I. fuelled her interest in rare and controversial books.

At the Atlantic, Rebecca J. Rosen explains how copyright has made it more difficult to acquire mid-century literature.

“Ah, shit, I feel dreary, I’m telling you there are NO VIBRATIONS in Florida or anywhere in the south, the people are DEAD.” At the Paris Review Daily, Vanessa Blakeslee reads through Jack Kerouac’s letters from Florida.

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