News round-up for the week ending June 9, 2013:
Jonah Lehrer, good-looking plagiarist and liar, sold his next book anyway! [I support this… he’s still a great writer.] His next book about love will be published by Simon & Schuster.
(via New York Times)
Readmill launched a new Explore program where you can read e-books for free, but only for 24 hours. Check it out here. I personally have my eye on Meghan Daum’s collection of essays Misspent Youth.
This is pretty neat. Check out the BookExpo America 2013: Map of the Houses.
Here is Flavorwire‘s 20 Highbrow Books to Read on the Beach This Summer.
I am a huge fan of Gary Shteyngart and I tend to recommend his written works to anyone who asks. Here is his piece “From the Diaries of Pussy-Cake” from this week’s New Yorker Fiction issue.
Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Appian Way Productions and Media Rights Capital acquired the rights to Lauren Beukes’ novel The Shining Girls (which I haven’t read yet but sounds like a spooky thriller!) for a TV series adaptation. I mean, if Leo endorses it then….
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
“Warner Bros. Pictures will produce a live-action adaptation of the Archie comics. This will be the first feature film about the Riverdale High teens.” But most importantly, who is going to play Jughead Jones, my all-time favorite asexual teenage cartoon character???
(via GalleyCat)
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