Emory’s Shakespeare Illustrated collects 19th century British artists’ renderings of scenes from the Bard’s plays. A few of French artist Eugène Delacroix’s Hamlet paintings and lithographs are included. Professor Harry Rusche notes that the lithographs were inspired by an 1827 English production of Hamlet in Paris, with Harriet Smithson in the part of Ophelia. (Hector Berlioz saw the same production . . .
Then We Came to the End sells 50,000 copies, earns out, and is pronounced a disappointment? Can we talk again when the paperback breathes new life into sales?
“Much of what follows is factually incorrect,” notes the Paris Review interview with Katherine Anne Porter. In honor of her ever-changing life story, the editors left “fake enough alone.”
NYC Community Board 6 has voted to rename the corner of E. 48th St. and 2nd Ave. after Kurt Vonnegut, who spent most of his writing life there.
New color e-paper produces up to 4,096 hues and “can be viewed from a full 180 degrees,” so that images “appear crisp, even when the display is bent.” (Thanks, Max.)