Morning Bites: Philip Roth’s nonexistent Nobel, Truffaut’s Bradbury, vampire Jews, and more

Winter is coming (well, the holiday shopping season is, but winter nonetheless), and it’s getting everybody really psyched about the impending Kindle Fire vs. iPad wars.  Slate and The Daily Beast weigh in. At The Millions: Can we please just give Philip Roth a fricken Nobel Prize already?  Until then, he’s just gonna keep chilling. Taking a look at Truffaut’s adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. This week will see the release of Arthur Conan Doyle’s long lost first novel, […]

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Morning Bites: Arthur Conan Doyle, Gabriel García Márquez in Iran, J. Edgar, parrot sketches, and more

At The Paris Review: Michael Dirda reflects on a childhood love of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Gabriel García Márquez is big in Tehran. “I have never before come upon a book at once as loving and as devastating as The Mirador by Élisabeth Gille, the daughter of Irène Némirovsky.” – Ruth Franklin at The New Republic. The preview for the J. Edgar Hoover film starring Leonardo DiCaprio (directed by Clint Eastwood) is up.  We’re officially psyched. (Anybody know who’s doing […]

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