Entertainment Weekly's Shelf Life: EW recently started a books blog and at first I was underwhelmed, but I appreciate that after the authors posted a trailer for Thomas Pynchon's new book INHERENT VICE, they did some research and found the narrator is Pynchon himself. (He sounds like a cross between Allen Ginsberg and The Dude.)
S.F. Chronicle's City Brights: I want to read all 100 books on the Modern Library list; John Gilkey wanted to steal first editions of all 100, according to the new true-crime thriller THE MAN WHO LOVED BOOKS TOO MUCH. Yup, that's too much all right.
GalleyCat: Julia Roberts was spotted filming a scene yesterday at Brooklyn's BookCourt bookstore for the forthcoming adaptation of EAT, PRAY, LOVE. (Still haven't been there; what is wrong with me?) Between that and the Strand dollar-cart cameo in "Julie & Julia" -- about which more tomorrow, but I believe that scene was also shot on location -- the gesture is appreciated.
Slate's DoubleX: The death of chick lit has been wildly overreported, but usually not from an author working in the genre. Sarah Bilston's first book came out before the credit crisis; in editing her second, she questions what yesterday's blithe heroines need to do to still be relatable for readers.
Infinite Summer corner! Huffington Post: Mike Miley finished INFINITE JEST ahead of schedule (well done, sir). Now he shares what it's like to have finished and be "free to play the field and flirt with all those other books on the shelf that had been giving me the eye."
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I'd like to believe that that is actually Thomas Pynchon's voice. But, if somebody came out and said that wasn't actually his voice, who would be able to prove them wrong?
It can't be proven absolutely, although thanks to the Wall Street Journal we know whoever recorded the trailer also provided the voice for Pynchon's "Simpsons" appearance, which... is just what a postmodernist would do, come to think about it.
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