Thursday, June 12th, 2008
J. K. Rowling gave the commencement address at Harvard this year. Click here to read her advice to the graduates (there’s a video there as well). ”As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters”.
- Staying with J. K. Rowling, the 800-word prequel she hand-wrote on a card sold for £ 25000 at auction on Wednesday. Cards by twelve other writers were sold as well, and all money (£ 47150) went to charity. You can read the stories here.
- Just in case you were planning to see Sex and the City: the book you can see Carrie reading at some stage, Love Letters from Great Men, is fictional. It doesn’t live outside celluloid. Happily, there’s a close match: Love Letters from Great Men and Women: From the Eighteenth Century to the Present Day.
If you liked My Booky Wook, you’ll be thrilled to hear that Russell Brand has signed on for two more books with HarperCollins. His next book should be out in time for Christmas this year.
- The Encyclopaedia Britannica has decided to allow online user submissions. Perhaps it’ll get its own wiki now – BritWiki? PaediWiki? EBWiki (my colleague would love that!)?
- Indra Sinha, whose Animal’s People was shortlisted for the Booker Prize last year, has begun an indefinite hunger strike in New Delhi, to show support for the survivors of the Bhopal chemical disaster (the subject of Animal’s People).
Tags: bhopal, commencement, encyclopaedia britannica, hunger strike, indra sinha, j. k. rowling, love letters, my booky wook, russell brand, sex and the city, what's your story?
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