A weekly collection of storytelling links.
Best enjoyed with coffee or tea on your Sunday morning, afternoon, or evening.
The Sunday News has been on a break for three weeks (!), so here are some of the best links to catch you up on what's been happening in the literary world:
→ A Penguin book truck is traveling around the United States this summer. [x]
→ The book trailer for Maria Semple's Where'd You Go, Bernadette is clever and funny. [x]
→ J.J. Abrams' upcoming book is filled with "unusual storytelling" and has gained recent attention thanks to its unique pre-publication marketing. [x]
→ We're halfway through 2013. How many books have you read so far? A five-year-old girl read 875 books in one school year. [x]
→ Illustrator Jonathan Wolstenholme created a series of paintings of vintage books that smoke, drink, and slip on banana peels. [x]
→ Apparantly, peppermint-scented pencils help writers concentrate. I think I'll stick to peppermint tea (or peppermint chocolate - yum). [x]
→ The Lonely Island's video for "Spell It Out" gets creative with spelling. [x]
→ The always funny Jimmy Fallon put together a Do Not Read List for Summer 2013. [x]
→ Huffington Post Canada interviewed the book cover designer of Stephen King's Joyland. [x]
→ Yes and Yes shared a recipe for lemon cake, inspired by The Great Gatsby. [x]
→ The Oxford English Dictionary has added the words "tweet" and "crowdsourcing" to its lexicon. [x]
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