The Incredible Vanishing Book: We don’t know how soon it will happen, but it is happening and it will be consummated soon. The commodity of the book, as we have known it for the last few decades, is vanishing and being replaced by new electronic media. [Inside Higher Ed]
Forgotten Authors No 12: AP Herbert: Alan Patrick Herbert is almost out of print, but should have more readers today. Herbert served in two world wars, survived Gallipoli, was a long-standing member of Parliament and a social reformer who worked to end outdated divorce and obscenity laws, and was knighted by Churchill. [Independent]
William Wharton, Author, Dies at 82: William Wharton, a successful impressionist painter who at 53 published his first novel, “Birdy,” which won a National Book Award, became a critically acclaimed movie and led to a dozen more books, died Wednesday in Encinitas, Calif. He was 82. [NYT]
Crashed and burned: Three decades ago, The Right Stuff appeared like a dazzling comet. Who would have imagined that, a generation later, Tom Wolfe’s paean to America’s space heroes would seem so sad? [Guardian]
Studs Terkel, Listener to Americans, Dies at 96: Studs Terkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose searching interviews with ordinary Americans helped establish oral history as a serious genre, and who for decades was the voluble host of a popular radio show in Chicago, died Friday at his home there. He was 96. [NYT]
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