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By: Bowie Style,
on 7/22/2012
earlier this month i attended the heals autumn winter 2012 press show to preview some of the designs they have coming up in the new season. one of their regular features is "heals discovers" where they collaborate with new and established designers to create exclusive collections. one of those taking part this year is a designer we have featured here on P+P a few times in the past - maria
By: Bowie Style,
on 7/22/2012
more now from the heals autumn winter 2012 press show. one of their key trends is heritage and part of the collection is this 1970's inspired 'granny squares' crochet. the design is in fact a very convincing photographic print that is incedibly soft to the touch. available on bedlinen and cushion, and there is also a co-ordinating rug.
By: Bowie Style,
on 7/22/2012
and finally today another of "heals discovers" designers for 2012 is london based designer sonya winner who creates vibrant graphic rugs which are handwoven in nepal. sonya is an expert in blending wool colours and pile textures.
By: Heidi MacDonald,
on 7/22/2012
Whatever the merits of the latest summary judgment motion in the dispute over the Superman copyright, its supporting exhibits bring together a number of important documents in two accessible filings.
The first set brings collects key contracts and court filings in chronological order, from the sale of Superman to the current termination dispute. We’ve seen much of this before, but not in one place. Especially worth noting are full copies of the complaint, court opinions & settlement in the 1947 Siegel & Shuster lawsuit.
The other set of documents, focusing on the Shuster heirs, contains material pertaining to Shuster’s estate and the 1992 pension arrangement, including an unproduced screenplay for a Siegel and Shuster biopic.
By: Lisa Yee,
on 7/22/2012
Last year was our first year at Comic-Con in San Diego . . .
To say that it was overwhelming is an understatement. But we were thrilled to be there this year, again . . .
Our first reaction upon seeing the sea of people was to flee in the opposite direction.
However, we braved the crowds. Why? Because the number one reason people go to Comic-Con is to have their photos taken with BatPeep, that's why! (I won't reveal who's really behind that mask, but here's a hint.
We saw lots of interesting things and many, many, many people, creatures and monst
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By: Will Terry,
on 7/22/2012
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By: En-Szu,
on 7/22/2012
The Olympic Games are almost upon us!!!!!!!!! Is anyone else as excited as I am? I can barely hold it in!
We thought it would be a great idea to build up our anticipation here at the STACKS by having an Olympics-themed week on Ink Splot 26. The Games begin on Friday, July 27th. We've got all sorts of fun stuff planned until then (with a few surprises), so stay tuned!
To kick things off, let's CREATE A CAPTION! What do you think would be a great caption for the photo of this Olympic Table Tennis player in the heat of a competition?
I’m thinking the following:
“Oof.”
Got a better caption? Share it in the Comments below!
P.S. We're also curious – if there was any Olympic event, real or imaginary, that you could include in the Olympic Games, what would it be? Tell us in the Comments!
— En-Szu, STACKS Intern (a.k.a. MidnightMagic5)
Images Courtesy London 2012
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By: Mattias Adolfsson,
on 7/22/2012
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By: jkerr,
on 7/22/2012
1. 2012 Text Prize for Young Adult and Children’s Writing
Congratulations to A.J. Betts, whose manuscript Zac and Mia has won the 2012 Text Prize. Zac and Mia, is a contemporary novel that deals with serious illness and friendship, and will be published in August 2013.
Last year’s winning book, Fire in the Sea by Myke Bartlett is released this week. (Seen our review?)
2. 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Awards
Congratulations to Robert Newton, whose novel When We Were Two has won the 2012 Prime Minister’s Literary Award for young adult fiction.
Does this man look like Finnick Odair? Rumours say yes.
Esteemed journal Kill Your Darlings has announced an online championship of favourite Australian YA books. Not only can you vote for your favourite (from July 30), but if you do you’ll go in the running to win an awesome prize pack.
Champions include Centre for Youth Literature founder, Agnes Nieuwenhuizen, CYL Program Coordinator Adele Walsh, CYL Learning Programs Officer Jordi Kerr, and the mother of Inky (and an award-winning YA author to boot) Lili Wilkinson.
5. You’ll never get into this clubhouse
Brontë sisters action figures – these historical heroes are determined to get their books into print!
By: John Hendrix,
on 7/22/2012
By: Kathy Temean,
on 7/22/2012
Writer’s Digest is having as Popular Fiction Award Contest. There are six genres: Young Adult Fiction, Romance, Mystery/Crime Fiction, SciFi/Fantasy, Thriller/Suspense, and Horror. The catch is to keep it to 4000 words. Not an easy thing to do when you are used to writing a 65,000 word + novel.
Here’s the scoop:
The Grand Prize winner will receive a $2500 cash prize, plus a trip to the 2013 Writer’s Digest Conference in New York City.
Each of the six category winners will receive a $500 cash prize.
Get your story published in Writer’s Digest, as well as on writersdigest.com
$100 off a purchase at writersdigestshop.com.
A copy of the 2013 Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market.
Deadline: Sept. 14, 2012
Entry Fee: $20.00
Good Luck!
Talk tomorrow,
Kathy
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By: Penny Dolan,
on 7/22/2012
By: Chuck Sambuchino,
on 7/22/2012
There is an old saying. What comes from the heart reaches the heart.
I have always found this to be true. But I would add to it my own less elegant postscript. It helps to know who you’re talking to.
GIVEAWAY: John is excited to give away a free copy of her novel to a random commenter. Comment within 2 weeks; winners must live in Canada/US to receive the book by mail. You can win a blog contest even if you’ve won before.
John Verdon is the author of mystery-thrillers. His latest novel
is LET THE DEVIL SLEEP (July 2012, Crown). John is a former
Manhattan advertising executive who lives with his wife in the
mountains of upstate New York. His first two Dave Gurney novels,
Think of a Number and Shut Your Eyes Tight, are
both international bestsellers.
When I wrote my first novel, the mystery-thriller THINK OF A NUMBER, I had an advantage that I would never have identified at the time as an advantage, or as anything good. It was simply this: I had no belief that the book would ever be published.
Wherein lies the advantage in that, you ask? And you might also ask, why did I bother to write it, if I didn’t believe anyone was going to read it?
Well, I hoped at least one person was going to read it. But I’ll return to her in a moment.
The initial reason I wrote THINK OF A NUMBER was simply to see if I could. I’d been reading and enjoying certain kinds of detective novels for many years. I discovered a handful of writers whose works I devoured: Conan Doyle, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, Reginald Hill, Peter Robinson.
After a while, it seemed to me that I had come to understand what they were doing — not just that I understood their books, but that I saw the art behind the whole detective story concept, the process of creating it. I thought it would be an interesting challenge to put this presumption to the test, to try to write one myself. I was afraid, of course, that I was going to discover that doing it was a far different thing from understanding it — like the first time I tried ice skating.
A few ideas started coming together in my mind: a scary opening, a brilliant murderer, an impossible crime, a restless detective, a marriage in trouble. Various colorful characters started to populate the landscape. Soon I had a starting point, a rough outline, an emotional arc. All of that found its way onto index cards.
And then, at some point, surrounded by all my scribbled notes, I started writing. Paragraphs. Pages. Chapters.
Which bri
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Posted on 7/22/2012
In New York David Wallace-Wells has a lengthy Q & A as New New Yorker Martin Amis Talks Terrorism, Pornography, Idyllic Brooklyn and American Decline.
[Note that they seem to have mis-printed the interview, with the first two questions misplaced at the very bottom of the page.]
Amis doesn't help his New York street cred with observations such as:
Those risky bits like the Lower East Side and Alphabet Land are now chic.(For non-New Yorkers: it's Alphabet City (named after the avenues that run there -- A, B, C, D). Which, by the way, is in the Lower East Side. But it's also cruel of neither Wallace-Wells nor New York to help the guy out here and correct him -- though maybe they all live out in Brooklyn too and only have limited familiarity with downtown as well .....)
The police in America are, to my senses, quite fascistic -- you know, immediate end to all humor, end of all human contact; it's a real assertion of authority in a way that's very rare in England.And I'm not sure he's studied enough case law to spout stuff such as:
That's a good metaphor for what the Supreme Court is always doing -- finding in favor of Hitler. Cute legalism, pedantry, anti-common sense.Still, overall: pretty tame stuff compared to what the British press get out of him. Add a Comment
Posted on 7/22/2012
They've announced the six winners of the Australian Prime Minister's Literary Awards.
The fiction-category winner was Foal's Bread by Gillian Mears; see the Allen & Unwin publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.co.uk (there doesn't appear to be a US edition yet).
Posted on 7/22/2012
In the Cleveland Plain Dealer Karen R. Long reports that Pauline Chen builds 'The Red Chamber' around memorable characters from a Chinese classic, as Chen's novel takes characters from the great The Story of the Stone (also known as The Dream of the Red Chamber), by Cao Xueqin, and ... well, apparently builds her own story around them.
Since The Story of the Stone is one of my all-time favorite novels I have great and grave doubts that this could work, but I figure I really ought to take a look .....
See also the Knopf publicity page, or get your copy at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
Posted on 7/22/2012
In the Global Times Liao Danlin writes about the wrong kind of Army of authors, as, apparently: 'China's military writers continue to rise in popularity'.
Somehow, I do not find this very encouraging.
Posted on 7/22/2012
The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Linus Asong's Detective Fiction and the African Scene: From the 'Whodunit ?' to the 'Whydunit ?'
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By: Betsy Bird,
on 7/22/2012
Now that I have your attention . . .
Recently I took a trip with the family to Stratford, Ontario to their Shakespeare Festival, just as I do every year. And because I am incapable of turning off my brain for even a day, I figured I’d check out the state of children’s literature today as it applies to a town based entirely on a festival celebrating a dead bald man.
But before all of that, the title of this piece. Ladies and gentlemen I have been to Stratford for years and years and seen many an innovative program. I’ve seen A Midsummer Night’s Dream reinterpreted as a Vietnam-era flowering of 60s style. I’ve seen Much Ado About Nothing set in a turn of the century Brazil. But one thing I have never seen is a practical use of Steampunk. Because the festival pads out the season with plenty of musicals, The Pirates of Penzance (my favorite Gilbert & Sullivan) was going on, and it was a remarkable production. First off, the program gave some mighty fascinating information about the show, including the fact that Gilbert and Sullivan had a simultaneous premier of the show in both America and England and yet they attended the New York performance! Then the director explained the Steampunk. He mentioned the fact that the genre’s current appeal is a response to our current technological state of wires and clouds and touch screens. We yearn for good old-fashioned gears and rivets sometimes. Pirates, as it happens, makes for a good mix and mash if you tread lightly. The show wasn’t filled with iron-plated jetpacks or goggle monocles, but the Steampunk elements were worked in naturally. A dirigible here, a Jules Verne nod there. The wheel of the pirate ship was nicely gearish, and one of the Major General’s daughters was first seen wearing goggles and wielding a pick-axe. All in all, a very good use of a genre that has yet to find a perfectly firm footing in the YA sphere of literature.
Here’s a glimpse of what I’m talking about:
Moving on, the bookstores of the city. On the street you can run into some good children’s literary fare, even if it is in the form of a t-shirt.
Then the Festival Theatre. The main hub of all things gift shoppy. The place you would want to go if you were on the lookout for an elegant scarf or a pack of good Shakespearean insult gum. I bee-lined for the children’s section, curious to see what is dubbed adequately Shakespearean or play-related. There are the usual classics:
Some contemporary fare, including one of the Who Was? books.
This one may be self-published. Hard to say. Could just be from a small Canadian publisher. Looked nice enough.
Anyone familiar with this “Drama!” series? Should I kno
By: Dan Rude,
on 7/22/2012
If you needed any more motivation to sign up for the 2012 ALSC National Institute, we’ve got it for you: all of the cool special events that are included in your registration.
These special events include talks from award-winning authors, book signings, and the kick-off for the 75th Caldecott Celebration. Here are some activities we know you’ll like:
Opening General Session with Peter Brown
Enjoy dinner with colleagues as ALSC President Carolyn Brodie (2012-2013) welcomes participants to Indianapolis and introduces the evening’s keynote speaker, Peter Brown. As the author and illustrator of numerous children’s books such as Children Make Terrible Pets, The Curious Garden, Chowder, and Flight of the Dodo, Peter will talk about his work and what it’s like to make children’s books while maintaining a sense of humor.
Breakfast for Bill: Caldecott Celebration
Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of the Caldecott Medal with Friday morning’s Breakfast for Bill. This panel discussion will feature past Caldecott Award winners and honorees Denise Fleming, Kevin Henkes and Eric Rohmann, as well as the director of the Mazza Museum: International Art from Picture Books, Ben Sapp. The breakfast will honor the memory of William C. Morris, former vice-president and director of library promotion at HarperCollins Children’s Books by bringing librarians together with children’s book creators. Morris was a long time ALSC member and friend, recipient of the first ALSC Distinguished Service Award, and an advocate for children’s librarians and literature.
Author Luncheon with Gary Paulsen
Gary Paulsen has been an influential force in children’s and young adult literature for almost three decades as the author of more than 175 books, three of which have been Newbery honor books: Hatchet, Dogsong, and The Winter Room. First given a book by a librarian, Gary has never stopped reading or believing in the power of young people. As a master storyteller, he taps into the human spirit through his work and encourages readers to observe and care about the world around them. Participants will come away from this special luncheon feeling inspired and excited about the possibilities of literature.
Indianapolis Reception
Friday evening is a great time to network with colleagues at a reception being hosted by the Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis School of Library and Information Science (IUPUI SLIS). Busses will take participants from the hotel to the school for drinks, hors d’oeuvres and poster sessions by students.
Closing General Session: Exploring Nonfiction through Authors and Illustrators
Learn about nonfiction books for children from the creators themselves. In a panel discussion, moderated by librarian Marra Carson Honeywell, authors/illustrators Bryan Collier, Doreen Rappaport and April Pulley Sayre will talk about the inspiration behind their ideas, the research that went into writing and illustrating, and the importance of nonfiction books for children today.
Register now for the 2012 ALSC National Institute. The Institute will take place in Indianapolis on September 20-22, 2012. For more information on registration, events, and lodging, please visit: http://www.ala.org/alsc/institute
Happy Monday! Here's my mishmash of thoughts:
By: ADK,
on 7/22/2012
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This is interesting stuff. I’m bookmarking it to read later.
Interesting stuff. Thanks for making it available in such an accessible format.
Levitz: “I was disappointed when I learned when I learned that the Shuster family filed their termination claim.”
I’m kind of disappointed in Levitz. He comes across as playing a sort of corporate “good cop”, convincing the heirs he’s genuinely interested in Shuster’s contribution to comics history and that the pittance DC’s paying is the best deal he can get them. I don’t know if his interest is genuine, but I can see that by filing the termination, the heirs were able to get an offer, that they rejected, which would have paid a guaranteed $4 million dollars from 2005 to 2033 (and probably considerably more, unless DC was planning on playing accounting games with the profits. Just the 1% cover price royalty on comics should cover the guaranteed amount with just direct market sales), more than five times that deal Levitz got them, even assuming DC was willing to modify that deal to cover Shuster’s nephew and niece after his sister passes away.