Sony sponsoring Hay Festival – So I’m thinking Amazon think they’re just going to stroll into the UK with their Kindle and people are going to faint and swoon at their feet at the excitement of finally getting their hands on them. Well Amazon’s dithering and hesitation in getting the Kindle launched over here may be their downfall, especially with Sony striving to embed themselves as the ‘reader leader’. Sony’s latest move is to sponsor the upcoming Hay Festival (21-31 May) and with 120,000-plus visitors predicted to pass through the festival, this has to be seen as a move that’s slicker than a dance-off at the World Tango Championships. Way to go Sony! ::via The Guardian.
The writing’s on the wall: A growing trend? – I’m starting to wonder if there’s a growing trend among literary types for making a feature of bookish displays on walls? First I find this post from Michael Kindness over at Books on the Nightstand, on a personal art project he’s just finished, which is not only superb but wholly bookish in nature. Then I discover that Harper Perennial have kitted out the publication party venue for Simon Van Booy’s upcoming short story collection, Love Begins in Winter (this is coming up in my review pile soon. Look out for it), with a wall displaying the full text of Van Booy’s short story Tiger, Tiger.
What’s more a few weeks back I began mulling over the notion of filling the walls of my tiny computer room with pages from the works of Proust and Dostoevsky. I’ve not started doing it yet, but now, after seeing these two examples, I’m all the more keen. So a growing trend for putting the writing on the walls? It’s certainly starting to look that way.
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