Origami Unicorn

The Casebook of Nips & Porkington

In the Sea and Near a Girl

Directed by Masanobu Hiraoka
Music & Sound design: Aimar Molero
http://www.aimar-molero.com/

Sun Set Sun

Updating Book Contract Language

Publishers Weekly reports on the latest proposal by the Authors Guild to revise standard book contracts: "A Publishing Contract Should Not Be Forever."

We believe three basic changes are urgently needed: (1) time-limited contracts, (2) a clause that provides for reversion of unexploited rights, and (3) a specific new unchallengeable definition to replace historic “out of print” clauses that are not remotely relevant in the electronic age.

The Bones of a Book

Good, bad, or indifferent, Go Set A Watchman offers a chance to see how a book was built, and discuss the unreality of fiction. The New York Times takes a look at the facts and makes some surmises about the fiction. The Guardian considers the story and the roots from which it sprang, ending:

Watchman is nowhere near as good a novel as Mockingbird, but it might prove an equally significant one, if it helps us look to history for our lessons, rather than to our consoling, childish, whitewashed fables.

Tarzan of the Apes

The Critic

Thunderbirds Are Go Documentary

Kensho

A Cricket in Times Square