Charles Dickens

Christopher Hitchens' Final Vanity Fair Essay - Posted January 5, 2012
Today Vanity Fair published Christopher Hitchens' final essay for the magazine, an inspiring tribute to Charles Dickens. The journalist and author ... [semanticweb.com]

Christopher Hitchens' Last Vanity Fair Piece: A Look at Dickens - Posted January 5, 2012
For his last piece in Vanity Fair, Christopher Hitchens shows his appreciation for Charles Dickens... [FishbowlNY]

Lord of the Fleas? - Posted January 3, 2012
What if Eric Carle had written his famous kid's book about A Very Hungry Cat? Over at Abe Books, a satirical essay reimagined the covers of 18 ... [GalleyCat]

Playing with Famous Author Dolls - Posted December 13, 2011
Over at UneekDollDesigns, artist Debbie Ritter sells handmade dolls of famous authors and celebrated literary characters. The collection includes the ... [GalleyCat]

Ralph Fiennes to Adapt The Invisible Woman - Posted August 10, 2011
While many know actor Ralph Fiennes for playing Harry Potter's nemesis Lord Voldemort, he has also started directing. One of his post-Harry Potter film projects includes directing an adaptation of ... [semanticweb.com]

Undatable in Lit Hashtag Sweeps Twitter - Posted August 2, 2011
Today the Random House Twitter feed took the popular "undatable" topic and collected examples of undatable literary characters at the new Undateable In Li... [GalleyCat]

New York Public Library to Host All-Night Scavenger Hunt - Posted April 5, 2011
In celebration of the New York Public Library's centennial festival weekend, game designer Jane McGonigal has crafted the "Find the Future" scavenger hunt. 500 players will join the "Write All Night" event on May 20th. Inside the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, they wil... [GalleyCat]

Dr. Who Producer Suffers Through Early LA Christmas - Posted December 20, 2010
Steven Moffat (pictured), the newest producer of long-running BBC-TV series Dr. Who, is coming in with a bang on Christmas Day. Although the program has done a Yuletid... [FishbowlLA]

Oprah Winfrey's Double Dickens Book Club Pick - Posted December 7, 2010
Oprah Winfrey picked a classic double header for her latest book club selection, choosing ... [GalleyCat]

"A Christmas Carol" Is Free eBook Of The Day - Posted November 22, 2010
The holiday season is here, and today's Free eBook of the Day was chosen to get you in the mood. A Christmas Carol by ... [eBookNewser]

London Museum Seeks $40,000 to Preserve Charles Dickens' Manuscripts - Posted November 11, 2010
The Victoria and Albert Museum in London seeks donations to preserve and restore three handwritten Charles Dickens manuscripts from acid paper rot. They hope to raise 25,000 (more than $40,000) to save the manuscripts. ... [GalleyCat]

Thousands of Protesters Fight to Keep The Hobbit in New Zealand - Posted October 25, 2010
New Zealand activists are fighting to keep filming for the upcoming The Hobbit adaptation in that country, the same place where ... [GalleyCat]

It Was the Best of Tweets, It Was the Worst of Tweets - Posted July 14, 2009
In honor of Bastille Day, author Matt Stewart will publish "The French Revolution" entirely on Twitter, estimating it will take 3,700 tweets to micro-blog his 480,000-character debut nov... [GalleyCat]

What of the Harry Potter Offshoots? - Posted May 10, 2007
The question is very much on the minds of many who follow everything related to Harry Potter and J.K. Rowling and the WSJ's Jeff Trachtenberg asks the question in more detail. With the final volume in the series slated for publication on July 21, will it mean that few additions will... [GalleyCat]

Books into Theme Parks - Posted April 16, 2007
If there's a third one out there, then I can safely call the transformation of books into theme parks a bona fide trend. But for now, let's gawp at the latest news on this front: First is the announcement that Dickens World, a theme park devoted to - you guessed it -... [GalleyCat]