Good news! The book blogs can tell the future, and it is only a little bit terrifying! The future, apparently, is full of digibooks, Twitter, book pirates, and “video poetry.” The Rumpus is only slightly afraid, and it promises to hold your hand through the worst parts.
The future, as well as Tobias Wolff reading Denis Johnson, an interview about Bonnie and Clyde, and the requisite literary gossip, is all below the fold.
Over at Confessions of an Idiosyncratic Mind, the creator of CSI is teaming up with Duane Swierczynski to make a digi-novel, a new format that “combines the written word with digital clips.”
Powell’s Book Blog has a great write-up of the recent New York Times article about book piracy on the Internet, with the following quote by Cory Doctorow: “I really feel like my problem isn’t piracy … It’s obscurity.” (more on this later today)
The Guardian’s Book Blog finds people tweeting the classics, including this summary of Ulysses, “Man walks around Dublin. We follow every minute detail of his day. He’s probably overtweeting.” The Rumpus is bored with self-referential Twitter humor.
And Ron Silliman has a fascinating post about the promise and dangers of video poetry.
In other news, the Book Bench links to a podcast of Tobias Wolff reading Denis Johnson, there’s an interview with Paul Schneider regarding his book about Bonnie and Clyde on Jacket Copy (apparently both bank robbers were very short), Derek Walcott withdraws from consideration to be professor of poetry at Oxford because of sexual harrassment claims (via The Guardian Book Blog), and, if you have not been doing your homework and reading everything written on The Rumpus, we interview Dan Baum about using Twitter to tell all about his time at The New Yorker.
