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This Week: Pride and Prejudice as Written in Emoticons, Why the Novel Will Never Die

By JK Evanczuk on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 - View Comments
Pride and Prejudice: the emoticon adaptation

Pride and Prejudice: the emoticon adaptation

On David Foster Wallace’s “scare quotes,” and the joys of editing him.

An essay on the quiet art of cartooning, which sounds quite a lot like the quiet art of writing fiction. Which I guess, technically, is the same thing. Via The Rumpus.

What contemporary literature will people still be reading a century from now?

Pride and Prejudice, as written in emoticons, via Booksquare.

Books are America’s fourth form of entertainment, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Even better news: there were more than four items on that list.

Why the novel will never die.

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Lit Drift Daily Prompt #71
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