PARIS — Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg will bring Don DeLillo’s novel “Cosmopolis” to the big screen, the film’s producer said Friday. Paulo Branco’s Paris-based production house Alfama Films will co-produce with Cronenberg’s Toronto Antenna Ltd. “Cosmopolis,” which has yet to be cast, will tell DeLillo’s story of a 28 year-old billionaire who crosses Manhattan for a haircut. The film is set to start shooting in 2010 in New York and Toronto. “Cosmopolis” is DeLillo’s 13th novel published in 2003 by Scribner.The Hollywood Reporter: “David Cronenberg takes on ‘Cosmopolis’” by Rebecca Leffler, July 24, 2009.
Read more about DeLillo’s Cosmopolis. Read an excerpt from the book on the publisher’s site. About DeLillo: “Literary critic Harold Bloom named him as one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Philip Roth, and Cormac McCarthy” (Wikipedia). Not suprisingly, DeLillo stated that he rather not react to such a designation.
Via libraryland via romancandleheart: “Original manuscript of Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, here.”
![Skandalon [scan]Illustration for the French edition of City by Clifford D. Simak (J’ai Lu, 1970, no 0373). The illustration was created by Françoise Boudignon : “Françoise Boudignon was born in Paris in 1933. She studied painting and engraving at Fine Arts School of Paris. She has illustrated several works and has been a teacher of graphic expression at Ecole Architecture in Nantes. From 1980 on, she often goes to India and Sud-East Asia, where she finds new subjects of inspiration.” (Google’s Cache)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/CdDQgsPadpl5vvu50Vj08riZo1_500.jpg)
Skandalon [scan]Illustration for the French edition of City by Clifford D. Simak (J’ai Lu, 1970, no 0373). The illustration was created by Françoise Boudignon : “Françoise Boudignon was born in Paris in 1933. She studied painting and engraving at Fine Arts School of Paris. She has illustrated several works and has been a teacher of graphic expression at Ecole Architecture in Nantes. From 1980 on, she often goes to India and Sud-East Asia, where she finds new subjects of inspiration.” (Google’s Cache)
Hunter S. Thomson @ M+B Gallery “Self Portrait, Puerto Rico”, circa 1960s, gelatin silver print, stamped, dated and numbered by the Estate of Hunter S. Thompson.
Root Illustrated / “City of Glass”, a set of three illustrations for Paul Auster’s City of Glass, about a writer who always follows his feet.About Root Illustrated: “Welcome to Root Ilustrated, part of Root Studio, an eco friendly graphic design and illustration agency based in Lincoln. Our illustration team produce a wide range of styles.”
![The Guardian: “First Edition of Ulysses sells for record £275,000”“The astonishingly well-preserved and previously lost edition of the book, bought surreptitiously in a Manhattan bookshop despite it being banned in the US, was sold to a private buyer in London on the opening day of one of the world’s biggest antiquarian book fairs. […] This first edition is unopened – apart from that last episode. The copy is number 45 of the first 100 and is printed on fine Dutch handmade paper. The dealer who made the sale, Pom Harrington, said the book was one of only four copies of that first edition print run, all signed by Joyce, which had been unaccounted for. “In terms of collectability, Ulysses is considered to be the number one 20th-century book. This is such a find and it is in such fabulous, pristine condition.”](http://24.media.tumblr.com/CdDQgsPadod1rxkeFtI0XG7Qo1_500.jpg)
The Guardian: “First Edition of Ulysses sells for record £275,000”“The astonishingly well-preserved and previously lost edition of the book, bought surreptitiously in a Manhattan bookshop despite it being banned in the US, was sold to a private buyer in London on the opening day of one of the world’s biggest antiquarian book fairs. […] This first edition is unopened – apart from that last episode. The copy is number 45 of the first 100 and is printed on fine Dutch handmade paper. The dealer who made the sale, Pom Harrington, said the book was one of only four copies of that first edition print run, all signed by Joyce, which had been unaccounted for. “In terms of collectability, Ulysses is considered to be the number one 20th-century book. This is such a find and it is in such fabulous, pristine condition.”
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