Celebrities, reality TV, and gossip fill today’s news. Who knew a literary blog could be so juicy?
How do you get people to enjoy poetry? Incorporate celebrities!
- GPR Records has discovered an amazing way to make 16-year-old boys enjoy poetry–have Catherine Zeta-Jones read it to them. Today, on April 2nd, the company will release the 3-CD set Poetic License, which features celebrities reading poetry. Stars like Jason Alexander, Florence Henderson, and Cynthia Nixon (among many others) participated in the project. ShelfLife has an exclusive sneak peek with Catherine Zeta-Jones reading Wordsworth’s “Daffodils” and Cynthia Nixon reading “Vespers” by A.A. Milne.
- Do you know what GTL stands for in Jersey Shore speak? If you said “gym, tanning, laundry,” you may be excited to hear the latest Shore news–cast members Jenni Farley (aka, J-Woww) and Ronnie Ortiz-Magro are soon-to-be authors of a book based on the series, titled Never Fall in Love at the Jersey Shore. The book will be published by St. Martin’s Press, the same publisher that hit literary gold last year with Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. Could Never Fall in Love at the Jersey Shore share the same Man Booker fate? Let’s hope not. Check out JacketCopy for more information.
- In its latest installment of the “Three Books” series, NPR features “Three Stories of Gossip Not Even Austen Could Resist” by author Helen Simonson. Simonson discusses three of her favorite Novels of Manners by Edith Wharton, W. Somerset Maugham, and E.F. Benson. Though the books are now considered classics, Simonson believes their themes and scandals are still relevant: “Substitute names from today,” Simonson says, “and the book is more textbook than novel.”
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