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Little, Brown and Company has unveiled the cover for the 20th anniversary edition of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest. Last year, the publisher hosted a fan-designed cover contest.
According to the publisher’s tumblr post, Joe Walsh, a Cincinatti-based artist, created the winning submission. We’ve embedded the full image for the jacket design above—what do you think?
The judging committee included Karen Green, an artist and Wallace’s widow, and Michael Pietsch, CEO of Hachette Book Group and Wallace’s editor. Tom Bissell, a journalist, wrote the foreword for this book. The release date has been scheduled for Feb. 23. (via The Melville House Blog)
Josh Hutcherson has been cast in The Disaster Artist. In the past, he (pictured, via) has acted in several book-based projects such as Bridge to Terabithia, Cirque du Freak: The Vampire’s Assistant, and The Hunger Games film franchise.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the story for this film adaptation comes from a non-fiction book written by Greg Sestero and Tom Bissell. The story chronicles the creative process for “The Room, which is widely considered one of the worst movies of all time.”
Jezebel reports that Sestero actually starred in The Room. James Franco will serve as the director and also take on a lead acting role for this film adaptation. (via Tor.com)
What’s your favorite creative writing handbook?
Today’s guest on the Morning Media Menu podcast was journalist and author Tom Bissell. While talking about his new book, Magic Hours, Bissell shared the creative writing book that he made all his creative writing students read–an unexpected title about the art of film editing.
Check it out: “I have a really weird one I use that I’ll pass on to the GalleyCat audience: Michael Ondaatje‘s series of interviews with the film editor Walter Murch. The book is called The Conversations. It’s about art and mostly film editing, but the stuff that they talk about in film editing is so incredibly applicable to fiction writing that I make all of my students read that book. It is a hugely helpful primer on what thinking like an artist means and what thinking like a creative person means and ways to avoid hackneyed thinking as a creator.”
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At the Los Angeles Festival of Books, we uncovered the only three pieces of writing advice you will ever need.
In the middle of a panel discussion about “Creativity & Imagination,” one audience member asked three great nonfiction writers if they had any advice for aspiring writers.
1. Magic Hours author Tom Bissell repeated the first piece of advice twice: “Read a lot. Read a lot.”
2. I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts author Mark Dery chipped in a simple response: “Write a lot.”
3. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? author David Bellos contributed the final, and perhaps most important, piece of advice: “Don’t expect to make any money.”
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New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.
At the Los Angeles Festival of Books, we uncovered the only three pieces of writing advice you will ever need.
In the middle of a panel discussion about “Creativity & Imagination,” one audience member asked three great nonfiction writers if they had any advice for aspiring writers.
1. Magic Hours author Tom Bissell repeated the first piece of advice twice: “Read a lot. Read a lot.”
2. I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts author Mark Dery chipped in a simple response: “Write a lot.”
3. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? author David Bellos contributed the final, and perhaps most important, piece of advice: “Don’t expect to make any money.”
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By: Maryann Yin,
on 1/24/2011
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More than 80 Harper’s Magazine writers and friends signed an open letter to publisher John “Rick” MacArthur supporting the unionization of the magazine’s staff and urging publisher not to cut two editors. The publisher has since defended his actions in another letter.
The 84 signatures on the original letter included: Tom Bissell, Heidi Julavits, Naomi Klein, Jonathan Lethem, and Zadie Smith. The letter asked MacArthur seek alternative ways to reshape the magazine’s financial budget, suggesting the publisher to study the models of other not-for-profit magazines.
Here’s a quote from the original letter: “Editorial costs can only be cut so far without damaging the quality of the publication … At a time when there is much chatter about the death of print, publishing a magazine as brave and creative as Harper’s Magazine verges on a sacred trust.” (Via New York Magazine & Sarah Weinman)
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