Foi ontem apresentada a edição 15 do Correntes d’ Escritas – Encontro de Escritores de Expressão Ibérica. Este ano, o evento irá realizar-se de 20 a 22 de Fevereiro, no Axis Vermar Conference & Beach Hotel. No total, 60 escritores vão passar pela Póvoa de Varzim, participando em 15 mesas de debate. A programação pode ser consultada em http://www.cm-pvarzim.pt/povoa-cultural/pelouro-cultural/areas-de-accao/correntes-d-escritas/2014/mesas.
Livros e pessoas em trânsito.
http://www.papermag.com/2012/10/artist_illustrator_and_frequen.php
Robinson Crusoe Island is the largest of the Juan Fernandez Islands, a tiny archipelago that is now Chilean territory. Its link to Daniel Defoe’s book dates back to 1704 when a British buccaneer ship called at the island.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19562787
The 2012 longlist – as selected by this year’s panel, Dinah Birch, Amanda Foreman, Dan Stevens, Bharat Tandon and chair Sir Peter Stothard – has been announced.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2012/jul/25/booker-prize-longlist-2012-open-thread
Scribner just released this gorgeous new edition of A Farewell to Arms, complete with all of Hemingway’s alternate endings. If you ask most people with eyes, they’ll tell you the cover is a significant upgrade from the other two most common editions (here and here). So–what other books need saving from their old jackets? Here are six great books with spotty cover histories and solutions for those…ahem…aesthetically challenged titles.
http://blogs.publishersweekly.com/blogs/PWxyz/2012/07/19/ugly-covers-for-great-books/
De Arthur Conan Doyle a Charles Dickens, de Virginia Woolf a Monica Ali: a capital britânica como fonte de inspiração para diferentes gerações de escitores.
http://www.economist.com/node/21557740
A Sombra 