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☆ Charlie Watts book collection to be offered for sale at auction
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/2] Members of the Rolling Stones (L-R) Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards arrive for the "Exhibitionism" opening night gala at the Saatchi Gallery in London, Britain April 4, 2016. REUTERS/Luke MacGregor/File PhotoLONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - Books and jazz memorabilia belonging to late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts will go under the hammer in a two-part sale in September, auction house Christie's said on Monday. "Charlie Watts: Gentleman, Collector, Rolling Stone – Literature and Jazz" will feature more than 500 lots, with price estimates ranging from 800 pounds to 300,000 pounds ($1,023 - $383,730). Also on sale are rare editions of books by George Orwell, James Joyce, Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie. The flagship auction will take place in London on Sept. 28, while an online sale will run from Sept. 15-29, Christie's said.

Persons: Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Luke MacGregor, Christie's, Scott Fitzgerald, Harold Goldman, George Orwell, James Joyce, Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Watts, Charlie Parker's, Porgy, Bess, George Gershwin, “ Charlie, Marie, Louise Gumuchian, Ed Osmond Organizations: Saatchi, REUTERS, Thomson Locations: London, Britain

☆ Can You Find the Hidden Titles of a Dozen 19th-Century Novels?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-10 | by ( J. D. Biersdorfer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

This month’s Title Search highlights 19th-century fiction with a puzzle that challenges you to find the main titles of a dozen novels hidden in a block of text. As you uncover the titles, the answer section at the bottom of the screen grows to create a reading list with more information and links to the books. Many of the titles were serialized in periodicals before being released as complete novels, so the publication dates refer to the final books. And because all these 19th-century works have fallen into the public domain, the answer list links to the free e-book versions online. A new literary quiz lands on the Books page each week and you can match wits with previous puzzles in the Book Review Quiz Bowl archive.

Persons: you’ve, Queen Victoria’s Locations: Britain, Russia, America

☆ May Trump Soon Reach His Waterloo
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Peggy Noonan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

Peggy Noonan is an opinion columnist at the Wall Street Journal where her column, "Declarations," has run since 2000. She has been a fellow at Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, and has taught in the history department at Yale University. Before entering the Reagan White House, Noonan was a producer and writer at CBS News in New York, and an adjunct professor of Journalism at New York University. She was born in Brooklyn, New York and grew up there, in Massapequa Park, Long Island, and in Rutherford, New Jersey. In November, 2016 she was named one of the city's Literary Lions by the New York Public Library.

Persons: Peggy Noonan, ”, ” Noonan, Ronald Reagan, Noonan Organizations: Wall, Journal, NBC News, The, Harvard University’s Institute of Politics, Yale University, Reagan White House, CBS News, Journalism, New York University, Fairleigh Dickinson University, Lions, New York Public Library Locations: New York, Brooklyn , New York, Massapequa Park, Long, Rutherford , New Jersey, Rutherford, New York City

☆ A Tragic Act of Gun Violence Repeats Itself in a Small Southern Town
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Lauren Leblanc | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

Threaded through her consciousness is a steady reference to nursery rhymes and folklore, the vehicles by which she carries her shame. Ghost stories and folksy tales, as well as novels, embody a history worth exploring. If the truth is subject to debate, perhaps we’re only left with stories to set us free. “Inside the Wolf” is a vital Southern novel that speaks to a violent American legacy. Lauren LeBlanc is a book critic whose writing has appeared in The Times, The Boston Globe and The Atlantic, among other publications.

Persons: Rachel reconnects, ” Rowland, Palmer, Rachel, Rowland, Lauren LeBlanc Organizations: The Times, Boston Globe Locations: Southern, American

☆ Revisiting ‘Bridget Jones’s Diary’ Plus the Art of Literary Translation
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

On this week’s episode of the podcast, Gilbert Cruz talks to Juliana Barbassa and Gregory Cowles about the Book Review’s special translation issue, and to Tina Jordan and Elisabeth Egan about the novel “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” which was published in the U.S. 25 years ago this summer. What makes translation an art? Why do we see so many translations from some countries and almost none from others? Before coming to the Book Review, she spent years reporting and editing international news, and says, “I would often find myself turning to the fiction produced in that place” to really get a sense of it. Also on this week’s episode, Elisabeth Egan and Tina Jordan discuss “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” published in the U.S. 25 years ago this summer.

Persons: Gilbert Cruz, Juliana Barbassa, Gregory Cowles, Tina Jordan, Elisabeth Egan, Bridget Jones’s, Cowles, “, ”, Egan, Bridget Jones Locations: U.S

☆ The Art of Translation
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-07 | by ( Sophie Hughes | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +13 min

The |of Translation The undefined|of Translation The undefined|of Translation The undefined|of Translation See how a translator carries a book from one language to another, line by line. Much like a crossword, a translation isn’t finished until all the answers are present and correct, with each conditioning the others. Below are two attempts to show the thought processes involved in the kind of translation I do. Nobody would say “the truth, the truth, the truth” in English. Without it, the translation is faithful to the meaning of the Spanish clause, but it feels stale, spiritless, not faithful to the voice.

Persons: isn’t, Fernanda Melchor’s, ”, I’m, I’d, Munra, I’ve, Alia Trabucco, sours, Señora Mara, Mara, dio, patted, It’s, “ Joy, there’s Organizations: paz descanse, Google Locations: Mexican, Chilean, alegría

☆ Opinion | What’s the Story With Colleen Hoover?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Pamela Paul | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

There are the novels the literary world acclaims and there are the novels people actually read. With rare exceptions, these books are written by women, for women. And for the past few years, these books have been written by Colleen Hoover. In 2022 alone, Hoover’s novels sold 14.3 million copies and in total, more than 24 million copies to date. As Hoover herself explained her popularity in an interview in The Times: “It’s not me.

Persons: Colson Whitehead, Margaret Atwood, James, Stephanie Meyer’s, Meyer, Anne Rice, Danielle Steel, Sidney Sheldon, Judith Krantz, Jackie Collins, Tom Clancy, Colleen Hoover, Hoover, ”, “ Organizations: The Times Locations: Ocean, Rice’s, TikTok

☆ Opinion: Victoria Amelina, the sharp and witty Ukrainian writer whose story must be told
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-06 | by ( Opinion Olesya Khromeychuk | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —“I really wanted to be the founder of a literature festival in New York,” Victoria Amelina, Ukrainian writer and activist, once told a roomful of Londoners. Her life of late was dedicated to documenting Russian war crimes. Documenting stories of people she met in liberated territories, Victoria found a diary written by the writer and poet Volodymyr Vakulenko. A woman mourns the death of Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina during her memorial service at St. Michael's Golden-Domed Monastery, Kyiv. “Ukrainian manuscripts burn all too well.”Many Ukrainian manuscripts have already burned in the fires caused by Russian shelling.

Persons: “, Read, CNN — “, Victoria Amelina, Olesya, Sharp, Victoria, Andrei Kartapolov, ”, Volodymyr Vakulenko, Volodymyr, Kyiv’s, Michael's, Mikhail Bulgakov, Bulgakov’s Stalin, Margarita, ” “, Volodya Organizations: Ukrainian Institute London, CNN, Russian Duma Defence, New York Literature, Ukrainian Armed Forces, Arsenal, PEN Ukraine, Twitter, Facebook Locations: Central Europe, Khromeychuk, New York, Ukrainian, Donetsk, Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Russian, York, Yorks, Victoria, Kharkiv, Paris, Soviet, St, Kyiv, London, Popasna

☆ For Yusef Salaam, a Landslide Just Might Be the Best Revenge
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-05 | by ( Ginia Bellafante | More About Ginia Bellafante | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Six years ago, Mr. Salaam moved to Georgia; Harlem had become so expensive. He sees the lack of affordable housing as the area’s chief concern, and he is committed to working with developers to create more. Mr. Salaam’s ascent suggests the political appeal of lived experience over the attraction of outlier ideologies that have been cultivated at a privileged distance. Despite what he suffered at the hands of a warped system, Mr. Salaam maintains a position on policing that is comparatively moderate, calling for better and more sensitive policing, not a world without it. One of his political supporters is a former corrections officer who first encountered Mr. Salaam in a Lower Manhattan courthouse in the early stages of his long ordeal.

Persons: Salaam, Ms, Jordan, Harlemites, Brown, George Floyd, “, ”, Derrick Taitt, “ It’s, I’ll, Taitt Organizations: Calhoun School, Mr, Community Association of, East Harlem Locations: Georgia, Harlem, Lower Manhattan

CNN —Peruvian novelist and Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa has been hospitalized in Madrid with Covid-19, his son said Monday. “In light of the interest by the news media in our father’s health, we make public that he has been hospitalized since Saturday after being diagnosed with Covid-19,” Alvaro Vargas Llosa tweeted on behalf of himself and his siblings, Gonzalo and Morgana Vargas Llosa. Vargas Llosa lives in Madrid and holds Spanish as well as Peruvian citizenship. Born in Arequipa, Peru in 1936, Vargas Llosa was brought up by his mother until his father reappeared and brought an authoritarian change to his life. As well as the hostile environment at home, Vargas Llosa lived through Peru’s political turmoil, which saw the rise of dictator Manuel Odría in 1948.

Persons: Mario Vargas Llosa, ” Alvaro Vargas Llosa, Gonzalo, Morgana Vargas Llosa, Vargas Llosa, Manuel Odría, ” Organizations: CNN Locations: Peruvian, Madrid, Covid, Arequipa, Peru, Spanish

☆ Ukrainian Writer Victoria Amelina Dies After Kramatorsk Strike
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Cassandra Vinograd | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

KYIV, Ukraine — Victoria Amelina, one of Ukraine’s best known young writers, has died from injuries sustained in a Russian missile strike on a crowded restaurant in eastern Ukraine. Her death brought to 13 the number of civilians killed in the attack on the Ria Lounge restaurant in the city of Kramatorsk on June 27. Ms. Amelina was dining with a Colombian delegation when the missile ripped into the restaurant. “Doctors and paramedics in Kramatorsk and Dnipro did everything they could to save her life,” the writers’ group PEN Ukraine said in a statement late Sunday. Days before the attack, Ms. Amelina had attended the Kyiv Book Arsenal, a large literary festival in Ukraine’s capital.

Persons: Victoria Amelina, Amelina Organizations: Victoria, Ria, Colombian, PEN, Arsenal Locations: KYIV, Ukraine, Russian, Kramatorsk, Dnipro, PEN Ukraine, Kyiv

☆ A Russian missile strike killed a Ukrainian author who began documenting Russia's war crimes after the invasion
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-03 | by ( Katie Hawkinson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Victoria Amelina died July 1 following a Russian missile strike in the city of Kramatorsk. Amelina wrote two novels throughout her life and began writing poetry soon after the Russian war in Ukraine began. "But I document Russia's war crimes and listen to the sound of shelling, not poems." She received a grant in 2022 from Documenting Ukraine — a research project dedicated to documenting personal stories during the Russian war in Ukraine, according to their website — to complete the project. The work records the stories of female civil society leaders amid the war, according to Documenting Ukraine.

Persons: Victoria Amelina, Amelina, —, Amelina —, Sergio Jaramillo, Colombia's, " Jaramillo, Volodymyr Vakulenko — Organizations: Service, BBC, Financial Times, Twitter, Victoria, Irish Times, Kharkiv Literary Locations: Russian, Kramatorsk, Ukraine, Ukrainian

☆ Stanley Tucci says he thinks straight actors should be able to play gay characters
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-02 | by ( Alli Rosenbloom | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

CNN —Stanley Tucci weighed in on the debate about straight actors portraying gay characters in a new interview with BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs on Saturday. Tucci, who is married to literary agent Felicity Blunt, said he believes that as an actor, “you’re supposed to play different people.”“You just are. Tucci has portrayed gay characters in 2006’s “The Devil Wears Prada” and in the 2020 film “Supernova” alongside Oscar-winner Colin Firth. “Because often, it’s not done the right way.”For decades, Hollywood has cast actors in heterosexual relationships for gay roles. Conversations around inclusivity in casting transgender actors in transgender roles have also become pertinent, and casting cisgender actors for those roles has recently fallen out of popular practice.

Persons: CNN — Stanley Tucci, Tucci, Felicity Blunt, “ you’re, ”, Oscar, Colin Firth, ’ ”, Heath, Jake Gyllenhaal, Cate Blanchett, “ Carol, ” Benedict Cumberbatch, “, Alan Turing, Gyllenhaal, Blanchett, Cumberbatch, James Corden, isn’t, it’s, Guy Lodge, Firth, Felicity Organizations: CNN, BBC Radio, Hollywood, Awards, GLAAD, Guardian Locations: ”, “, Hollywood, Felicity Blunt's

Seoul, South Korea CNN —Raising a child in South Korea is no easy task. As a result, the hagwon industry in South Korea is massive, and profitable. Of the nearly 60,000 middle and high school students surveyed nationwide, almost a quarter of males and one in three females reported experiencing depression. Activists say South Korea needs deeper change instead, such as dismantling entrenched gender norms and introducing more support for working parents. Some agreed the private education sector needed reform, but doubted the effectiveness of this move.

Persons: Lee Ju, Lee, “, ” Lee, Anthony Wallace, Jung Yeon, Lee –, Yelim Lee, hagwons, ”, Critics, Kim Hong Organizations: South Korea CNN, South Korean, College, Education, Getty, South, Ministry of Education, Organization for Economic Co, Development, OECD, Ministry of Health, Twitter Locations: Seoul, South Korea, AFP, South Korea's, South, Haiti, Iceland, United States, United Kingdom, Korean, Korea, Japan

☆ What Will Prigozhin’s Rebellion Mean?
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Peggy Noonan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

☆ DeSantis Financial Disclosure Puts Him in the Millionaires Club
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Nicholas Nehamas | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Ron DeSantis of Florida, who often speaks of his blue-collar roots, is now a millionaire, thanks to a $1.25 million book deal that he signed with HarperCollins in anticipation of his run for president. Mr. DeSantis saw his net worth skyrocket to $1.17 million by the end of 2022, up from roughly $319,000 in 2021, according to a financial disclosure filed on Friday with the Florida Commission on Ethics. Before declaring that he would run for president, Mr. DeSantis took a series of trips around the country to meet local Republicans and promote his book. 1 book in America for nonfiction,” a smiling Mr. DeSantis said at one such stop in Iowa this spring. At the end of that year, he reported his net worth at around $284,000.

Persons: Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, “, ”, Mr Organizations: HarperCollins, New York Times Locations: Florida, America, Iowa

☆ How ‘Nimona’ Helped Its Creator Explore His Emerging Identity
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Robert Ito | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The film had its beginnings in 2015, the same year the book was published, and is that rarest of Hollywood literary makeovers. For Stevenson, much of the book spoke to his own upbringing and experiences. Stevenson, 31, was born and raised in Columbia, S.C., the middle child of five siblings. After years of home-schooling and two more at the local high school, he went to the Maryland Institute College of Art, where he began posting Nimona comics online in 2012, a project that became his senior thesis. “When I first started making the comic, I didn’t consider myself a writer,” he said.

Persons: Nimona, Stevenson, ”, “, Nimona ”, Eisner, ” Stevenson, Ra Organizations: Hollywood, Netflix, Maryland Institute College of Art, ”, Fox Animation, Blue Sky Studios, DreamWorks, Media Locations: Hollywood, Burbank, Sur Monterey County, Columbia

☆ John Early Brings a Deliriously Over-the-Top Sensibility to Stand-Up
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-30 | by ( Jason Zinoman | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

The key to his persona, I think, can be found in the joke he tells about the always-be-selling vanity of his generation, presenting himself as its avatar. “I don’t know how to do my taxes, but I do know how to be a badass.” Then he clarifies, “A shell of a badass.”That’s the role Early plays here. “If we’re honest,” he says, “Donald Trump is not a sensual person.” It’s the way he says “If we’re honest” that cracks me up. The grainy film stock and chunky red font of this special remind me of a Tarantino movie. In one revealing nostalgic riff, Early yearns for the days of Bob Fosse, when louche choreographers were on talk shows and dance could be “kinky and mysterious.”

Persons: ”, “, Trump, “ Donald Trump, Apple, There’s, Bob Fosse

☆ Translating Tolstoy While Inciting Revolution
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( Jennifer Wilson | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

Over time, Garnett’s detractors would make her out to be a prim and proper smotherer of the wild (male) Russian soul. In Russia, the abolition of serfdom was part of a series of reforms meant to stave off revolution. Stepniak wrote a profile of Zasulich for his book “Underground Russia” (1882), a study of the country’s new revolutionaries. In England, “Underground Russia” was a smash hit, going through three printings the year it was translated. In a 1991 biography of Constance, Richard Garnett, the pair’s grandson, writes that “the young lovers had a row about Land Nationalization.”

Persons: prim, Nabokov, Gogol, “, Kornei Chukovsky, Garnett, Stepniak, ”, uncouth, Constance Black, Alexander II, Ivan Turgenev’s, Vera Zasulich, Zasulich, Russia ”, Clementina, Eleanor Marx, Karl’s, William Morris’s, Edward Garnett, Edward, Constance, Richard Garnett Organizations: British Museum, Russia, Fabian Society Locations: Russian, Soviet, Crimean, Russia, Brighton, St . Petersburg, Europe, England, London

☆ ‘Building Something Together’: Translators Discuss Their Art
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-28 | by ( ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

There are as many ways of translating a literary text as there are translators. Literary translators have, however, historically received little recognition. Efforts by translators and by organizations like PEN America, which recently issued a manifesto on literary translation, have brought the field greater visibility, helping to cement the rights of translators and to raise awareness of literary translation as a creative art in its own right. Mui Poopoksakul is a Thailand-born lawyer turned literary translator. Bruna Dantas Lobato, originally from Brazil, is a literary translator from Portuguese and a writer.

Persons: Samantha Schnee, Allison Markin Powell, Jeremy Tiang, Mui, Bruna Dantas, JULIANA BARBASSA, Isaac Bashevis Singer Organizations: PEN America, Times, Conference, PEN Locations: Singapore, Thailand, Brazil

☆ “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson Can Still Unsettle Readers. We Need More Fiction Like That. - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-26 | by ( Ruth Franklin | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +3 min

But reading “The Lottery” as a connect-the-dots political commentary misses the primary source of the story’s power: its ambiguity. Today, readers across the political spectrum seem to be losing their appetite for literary discomfort. I was reminded again of that quality in 2017 by a different story in The New Yorker. Just as the #MeToo movement was getting underway, “Cat Person,” a short story by Kristen Roupenian, went viral for very similar reasons. The reaction was not unlike the reaction to “The Lottery.” “People get angry when they can’t figure out what something means,” Ms. Roupenian told me.

Persons: Jackson, McCarthy, Elizabeth Gilbert, Wesley Morris, we’re, it’s, Kristen Roupenian, Ms, Roupenian Organizations: Yorker, Trump, The Locations: Soviet, Ukraine, Russia, New

☆ Why the Titanic Keeps Drawing Us In
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Peggy Noonan | ) www.wsj.com time to read: +1 min

DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania, June 24 (Reuters) - On May 12, the library coordinator for Pennsylvania's Central Bucks School District sent an email to colleagues that some conservative parents and Christian advocacy groups had long prayed to see. Liberal groups say the effort amounts to censorship and even bigotry, with disproportionate harm to LGBT students and those in other minority groups. Dana Hunter, a Republican and the chair of the school board, said she sought advice from Jeremy Samek, senior counsel at the Independence Law Center and the Pennsylvania Family Institute. "There are things that everybody would agree, including the ACLU, that you shouldn't be giving to kids," said Samek, who does not live in the school district. Dell'Angelo, one of the board's Democrats, said it was wrong to involve groups that oppose LGBT rights in public school policy, and unethical to do so in secret.

Persons: Maia Kobabe, Juno Dawson, curriculums, Tabitha Dell'Angelo, Dana Hunter, Jeremy Samek, Hunter, Dell'Angelo, Samek, Hannah Beier, Leo Burchell, Shannon Harris, Harris, Jonathan Allen, Paul Thomasch, Claudia Parsons Organizations: Pennsylvania's Central Bucks School District, Republican, Liberal, Family Research Council, Independence Law Center, Pennsylvania Family Institute, Reuters, Republicans, American Association of School Librarians, Liberty, Museum, American, REUTERS, American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, U.S . Department of Education's, Civil Rights, U.S, ACLU, Pennsylvania Family, Family Research, Thomson Locations: DOYLESTOWN , Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Bucks, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, U.S, Central Bucks

☆ British Museum apologizes after using translator's work in China exhibition without pay or acknowlegment
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-23 | by ( Jessie Yeung | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

CNN —When the British Museum launched its “China’s hidden century” exhibition last month, writer and translator Yilin Wang began getting confusing messages from her peers. No, Wang replied: She’d never been contacted by the museum, which used her work without permission, pay or acknowledgment. It added that “China’s hidden century” had involved more than 400 people from 20 countries, and that those involved had “spent years, together with scholars worldwide,” putting it all together. A British Museum worker pictured in the "China's hidden century" exhibition ahead of its public opening. The British Museum did not respond immediately to CNN’s request for comment.

Persons: Yilin Wang, Qiu Jin, Wang, —, She’d, “, James Manning, ”, It’s, NameTheTranslator, …, ” Wang Organizations: CNN, British Museum, Twitter, Museum, British, UK’s Arts, Humanities Research, “, Google Locations: London, Qing China, British

☆ Henry Petroski, Whose Books Decoded Engineering, Dies at 81
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Richard Sandomir | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Henry Petroski, who demystified engineering with literary examinations of the designs and failures of large structures like buildings and bridges, as well as everyday items like the pencil and the toothpick, died on June 14 in hospice care in Durham, N.C. His wife, Catherine Petroski, said the cause was cancer. Dr. Petroski, a longtime professor of civil and environmental engineering at Duke University, adapted the architectural axiom “form follows function” into one of his own — “form follows failure” — and addressed the subject extensively in books, lectures, scholarly journals, The New York Times and magazines like Forbes and American Scientist. “Failure is central to engineering,” he said when The Times profiled him in 2006. “Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.

Persons: Henry Petroski, Catherine Petroski, Petroski, ”, “ Organizations: Duke University, The New York Times, Forbes, The Times, Kansas City Hyatt Regency Locations: Durham, N.C, American, Kansas, Tacoma, Washington State

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