Tag Archives: David Mitchell

Friday links: Step aside Salinger; super readers & more

An opinion piece on Slate suggests that schools replace Catcher in the Rye in the curriculum with David Mitchell’s Black Swan Green. Two thumbs up from this reader, who never could finish Catcher. Young readers need a new coming-of-age classic, a book that … Continue reading

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All-star cast, Matrix producers head up film version of ‘Cloud Atlas’

Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Susan Sarandon will lead an all-star cast in the film adaptation of David Mitchell‘s 2004 novel, Cloud Atlas. This era-spanning book, a novel told in six voices that our reviewer described as “complex literary origami” would … Continue reading

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Best book jackets of 2010

Just as with pinpointing why a certain title is wonderful, it is difficult to say exactly what makes a book jacket great. I know that I am drawn to bright, graphic cover designs that feature art rather than people—although I … Continue reading

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A superstar cast for ‘Cloud Atlas’

Director Tom Tykwer is adapting David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, and now he has a superstar cast: Tom Tykwer finally has a cast for his epic of all epic films, Cloud Atlas. Based on David Mitchell’s book of the same title, the … Continue reading

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The Man Booker Dozen

Yesterday, the “Man Booker Dozen” was announced. On September 7, six of these 13 books will be chosen for a shortlist, and on October 12, the winner of the Man Booker Prize—who will receive £50,000 and wide acclaim—will be announced. … Continue reading

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On BookPage.com: from Thailand to Montana

Books highlighted on our website this week take readers from the border between Burma and Thailand, to Nagasaki harbor, to Butte, Montana. To go on the journey, all you have to do is. . . Read a review of Ivan … Continue reading

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What we’re reading Wednesday

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell Random House, June 29, 2010 David Mitchell is one of those authors who has been on my personal must-read list for a long time. His four previous novels — Ghostwritten, … Continue reading

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Men in 2010?

2009 was a big year for the female literati, with new releases from major talents like Margaret Atwood, A.S. Byatt, Lorrie Moore,  Jayne Anne Phillips and Alice Munro. But in 2010, when it comes to anticipated fiction releases from literary … Continue reading

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