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THE CARRIE DIARIES by Candace Bushnell introduced the world to Carrie Bradshaw as a teenager, leading up to her move to New York City (wasn’t the end line of THE CARRIE DIARIES the most perfect thing?!).

Now there’s SUMMER AND THE CITY.  Carrie Bradshaw is loving NYC in the summer, especially since she’s taking her first real writing class.  But making it in the big city isn’t all glamour and gorgeousness, as Carrie soon discovers.

SUMMER AND THE CITY is the continuing story of Carrie Bradshaw, an icon of fashion and New York City.  On-sale April 26, 2011.

Can’t make it to New York this summer?  We have the next best thing: we’re giving away TWO gift packs containing an advanced readers copy of SUMMER AND THE CITY, a letter from Candace Bushnell, and a “I <Heart> NYC” t-shirt.  Tell us in the comments what you love about Carrie Bradshaw and/or New York City, and you’ll be entered to win one of the two prize packages.  Contest ends 11:59 p.m. Sunday, March 20th.  Winners will be announced Monday, March 21st.

After starring in one of the most popular television adaptations in recent memory, Sex and the City veteran Kristin Davis will star in an NBC adaptation of The Happiness Project.

Gretchen Rubin‘s memoir focused on a year “spent test-driving the wisdom of the ages, the current scientific studies, and the lessons from popular culture about how to be happy–from Aristotle to Martin Seligman to Thoreau to Oprah.” Rubin wrote 40 Ways to Look at Winston Churchill before publishing her bestselling memoir–dubbed “a cross between the Dalai Lama’s The Art of Happiness and Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love” by author Sonya Lyubomirsky.

Here’s more about the show from The Hollywood Reporter: “The single-camera, half-hour project will be produced by Universal Media Studios and Mosaic. Kristin Newman (Chuck, How Met Your Mother) is in negotiations to write the pilot and executive produce.  Jimmy Miller and Dave Fleming will also executive produce.”

New Career Opportunities Daily: The best jobs in media.

Ed. Note: In today's Youth Advisory Board post, Caroline reports back from a memorable author panel in New York featuring Cecily Von Ziegesar ("Gossip Girl"), Candace Bushnell (Sex and the City) and debut author J. Courtney Sullivan (Commencement).... Read the rest of this post

Cheating 2.0 (a new poll from Common Sense Media finds a number of students using cell phones and the internet to cheat on school exams… And not really seeing the ethical problem. Plus a search engine for mathletes worries some teachers.... Read the rest of this post

So, I've got a dilemma. My pile of weekend must reads is very large. My weekend reading time? Slim for the next couple of months. But on writing breaks, I've got what sound like fantastic reads.

My choices?

THE SCHOOL FOR COOL (The Social Experiments of Dorie Dilts) by PG Kain
THE HOST--the second weekend in a row...
HOME by Julie Andrews (I could just break into song right now)
PRINCE CASPIAN (I haven't seen the movie yet)

and

RIDING LESSONS by Sara Gruen (I read this book once and had a rare WOW reaction, so I want to read it again.

That's my weekend book pile that I'll be shuffling around and trying to read as much as I can before next week's pile pops up.

What's on your weekend reading list?

Happy Sex and the City Day!! (I wanted pink, but alas, there is none.)

Mavei Yankelevich, editor and translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms, will participate in a reading and reception tomorrow night in Brooklyn. The event is sponsored by A Public Space magazine, Russian American Cultural Center, and Overlook. Matvei will be joined by Eugene Ostashevsky for this night devoted to Russian Absurdism. Wednesday, January 16, 7pm at A Public Space, 323 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY. For more information: 212-673-2524.

Matvei Yankelevich, editor/translator of Overlook's Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms, talks to Michael Helke of the Stop Smiling website about the iconoclastic writer. Yankelevich's collection of prose and poetry by Kharms includes many works that have never been published before in the English language, and has been featured in The New Yorker, Harper's, and The New York Times Book Review.

The Daniil Kharms revival continues with a feature story by Daniel Kalder on the Guardian Unlimited website. Today I Wrote Nothing, edited and translated by Matvei Yankelevich, was also included in Billy Heller's "Required Reading" column in The New York Post. And the excellent blog of The Chronicle of Higher Education, Arts & Letters Daily, is featuring the George Saunders essay in The New York Times Book Review.

George Saunders considers Daniil Kharms in a long endpage essay in this week's The New York Times Sunday Book Review. Recently published to rave reviews, Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms, was edited and translated by Matvei Yankelevich. For the first time, English-language readers now have a comprehensive collection of the prose and poetry that secured Kharms’s literary reputation as one of the most brilliant and iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era.

Marjorie Perloff points out Today I Wrote Nothing as one of the "Books of the Year" in this week's issue of The Times Literary Supplement (TLS): "A dazzling book that gives me new hope for an avant garde writing that speaks to a larger audience. The Russian OBERIU poet Daniil Kharms, whose writings went unpublished in his lifetime (1905-42), was, as Matvei Yankelevich, the excellent editor and translator of Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms, remarks, much more than a 'Stalinist victim' or Soviet absurdist."

This week the venerable St. Mark's Bookshop in New York City's East Village is celebrating its 30th birthday. Bookselling This Week pays tribute to this fine independent bookstore, which is currently featuring Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms on the new arrival table.

Today we offer a short excerpt from Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms, edited and translated by Matvei Yankelevich. Long heralded as one of the most iconoclastic writers of the Soviet era, Daniil Kharms (1905-1942) was born in St. Petersburg and grew up amidst the Bolshevick revolution. As a young man, he became well known, along with other writers in the OBERIU movement that he founded, as an eccentric poet and performer of the early Soviet literary scene. He died of starvation while incarcerated by the state on suspicion of anti-Soviet activities. Today I Wrote Nothing, just published by The Overlook Press, is the first comprehensive collection of prose and poetry by Daniil Kharms in the English language.

The latest issue of The New Yorker features excerpts from Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms.

Born in St. Petersburg in 1905, Daniil Kharms was one of the founders, in 1928, of OBERIU, or Association of Real Art, an avant-garde group of writers and artists who embraced the ideas of the Futurists and believed that art should operate outside the rules of logic. In his lifetime, Kharms produced several works for children, but his writing for adults was not published. In 1931, Kharms was charged with anti-Soviet activities and briefly exiled from Leningrad. In 1941, he was arrested by the N.K.V.D. for making “defeatist statements”; sentenced to incarceration in the psychiatric ward of a prison hospital, he died of starvation the following year, during the siege of Leningrad. It wasn’t until the late nineteen-seventies that Kharms’s playful and poetic work began to appear in mainstream publications in Russia. Several books followed, as did festivals in Kharms’s honor and critical comparisons to Beckett, Camus, and Ionesco.

The gentleman translator of The Overlook Press' forthcoming Fall 2007 title TODAY I WROTE NOTHING: THE SELECTED WRITING OF DANIIL KHARMS visited our offices and graced our conference room today. Check out the video, featuring a reading of "Blue Notebook #10" from the piping-hot galleys that have just arrived.