Atenção, minotauristas!
Estes são os nomes dos vencedores do passatempo Minotauro/LER:
Isabel Sá, Célia Amador, Carlos Miguel Pereira e Diogo Duarte.
Os livros seguem pelo correio.
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Estes são os nomes dos vencedores do passatempo Minotauro/LER:
Isabel Sá, Célia Amador, Carlos Miguel Pereira e Diogo Duarte.
Os livros seguem pelo correio.
Muita gente pensa que Martin Amis nunca ganhará o Man Booker. Mas, este ano, a shortlist de livros para o prémio ignora Martin Amis e o seu A Viúva Grávida — bem como Ian McEwan ou Salman Rushdie. O The Guardian explica porquê (os responsáveis assumem que se trata de uma lista para divertir e provocar). Ou não.
Os e-books para iPad já vêm com extras, nomeadamente vídeos (booktrailers) e materiais de promoção. A ler no The New York Times.
Entrevista com Margaret Atwood, na Literary Review – e a sua opinião sobre os e-books: «A similar thing happened with the invention of the printing press, and also with the invention of the paperback. With the invention of the printing press, everybody thought it was the end of the world because the masses were going to get literate, which they then did. They started reading the Bible and breaking off from the Roman Catholic Church, and there were a lot of religious wars. Then came the eighteenth century, which was an age when literacy was spreading very quickly indeed and novel reading took off. There was actually a novel-reading mania! Every time there is a new medium, people get hypnotised by it. You remember what happened with radio, which fuelled the rise of a certain kind of dictator. And then what happened with the television, when people really did sit mesmerised in front of their television sets with TV dinners on their TV tables, eating as they watched. Every time there is a new thing like this it 1) rivets people and 2) upsets people who think it's the end of the world. It isn't ever quite the end of the world. It's certainly a change in the world, which then somehow adapts.»
O centenário do nascimento de Julien Gracq assinalado por Francisco José Viegas. Aqui, pode ouvir o próprio Gracq a confessar: «Je n'ai pas de méthode de travail.»
Leituras de Verão, para alguns – os livros de John Le Carré «redescobertos» e, neste caso, O Espião que Veio do Frio (em Portugal na Dom Quixote) comentados por William Boyd. No The Guardian.
Ciudad santa, de Guillermo Orsi (Buenos Aires, 1946), foi o vencedor do Prémio Hammett na Semana Negra de Gijón.