He is one of the world’s most successful crime writers, selling more than 100 million copies of his novels
and short stories worldwide. Now Lee
Child is planning major television adaptations of his Jack Reacher books after
fans complained to him about Tom
Cruise’s portrayal of the larger-than-life hero in two Hollywood
movies. Reacher, a private investigator
and drifter, is described in Child’s novels as physically towering, measuring
in at 6ft 5in. Cruise, however, is said
to be only 5ft 7in. “I’ve got tens of
thousands of letters saying they didn’t like Cruise because he’s too small,
basically,” said Child. “Part of
Reacher’s appeal is that he’s very intimidating. Even without doing anything, if he walks into
a room, people are a little bit uneasy.
It was felt that, for all his virtues, Cruise didn’t represent that. So the readers were cross from the
beginning.” Child hopes that a deal will
be signed by November 2018 for productions that will devote between 10 and 12
hours to each book. Asked about the
cast, he said: “That’s the great thing
about television. It’s much less
star-driven than feature films. So it
doesn’t need to be a so-called A-list guy.”
Fan letters are part of a vast archive of correspondence, notes and
manuscripts that Child is making available to the public for the first time. It will be announced this week that he is
transferring everything to the British Archive for
Contemporary Writing at the University of East Anglia (UEA). The archive boasts the literary holdings of
Doris Lessing, Malcolm Bradbury and JD Salinger, among others, while the
university has an international reputation for creative writing through its MA,
with Ian McEwan among its alumni. He has
sent more than 40 enormous boxes filled with papers spanning his career. There is so much material it will take more
than a year to catalogue. Justine Mann,
archivist at UEA, said: “For the first
time, creative writers, researchers and scholars of literature will have access
to material that allows them to trace Child’s writing process and, through
textual analysis of initial and subsequent drafts, identify some of the secrets
behind his incredible success.”
Coventry-born Child became a global publishing phenomenon after his
first Reacher book in 1997. The 23rd
novel in the series, Past Tense, will be published in November
2018. The others have been translated
into 49 languages. Yet he did not start
writing until he was 40, after being made redundant from his 18-year career in
television: “The real drama in my story
is having been fired from Granada.
That’s the real rags-to-riches part of it. I managed to do something afterwards … I’m
the lucky one.” Child said he had not
held anything back from the archives:
“With a serious institution like UEA, which does teach the nitty-gritty
of writing, you can’t present a curated archive because it would necessarily
give the wrong impression.” The archive
includes a rejection slip from a literary agent, who will no doubt be kicking
himself or herself for failing to sense his potential. Dalya Alberge
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/26/lee-child-jack-reacher-novels-on-tv-tom-cruise-archive-public
The pluot is a cross between a plum and an apricot. You might also
find the fruit labeled plumcot, aprium, or apriplum. Find a recipe to use as a dessert or as
a coffee cake. The streusel topping is optional, but it adds
a nice crunchy texture to the cake.
Find recipe by Diana Rattray at https://www.thespruceeats.com/pluot-cake-or-plum-cake-3059293
Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet, Eating her curds and whey; Along came a spider, Who
sat down beside her, And frightened Miss Muffet away. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46957/little-miss-muffet
Curds and whey are a
product of cheese-making. When rennet,
an enzyme derived from a newborn ruminant is added to milk, the milk curdles. These solid, curdled lumps are the curds. The whey is the liquid
byproduct of the curdling process. Most
people first heard the term curds and whey in the nursery
rhyme, Little Miss Muffet, a nursery rhyme that dates back to the
sixteenth century, though it was first published in 1805. In the rhyme, Miss Muffet sits on a tuffet
eating her curds and whey.
Today’s cottage cheese is similar to the curds and whey that
would have been popular four hundred years ago when the nursery rhyme was
written. However, cottage cheese is
washed, salted and well-drained, and many believe that curds and wheywould
have contained more whey than cottage cheese contains. The method of curdling curds and
whey is not known, an acid such as vinegar or lemon juice may be used
to curdle milk, which affects the taste.
http://grammarist.com/phrase/curds-and-whey/
Ricotta is Italian for “twice cooked”
or “to cook again”
and is traditionally made with the whey byproduct of making another cheese,
such as mozzarella or a hard cheese. The
whey is heated, with or without additional vinegar, and the new ricotta is
strained and seasoned. Find recipes at https://smittenkitchen.com/2011/06/rich-homemade-ricotta/
Toledo, Ohio’s Momentum Features
Glass, Music, Art and Makers in Free Festival, September 13–15, 2018 Toledo’s
Promenade Park will be transformed by dynamic interactive art projects, art exhibitions
and performances, innovative music across a spectrum of genres, and a Mini
Maker Faire. The Momentum
festival will take place September 13-15 in Toledo, Ohio’s
riverfront Promenade Park. Featuring
large-scale art installations including Fantastic Planet by Parer Studio and
the Compound Camera by Pneuhaus as well as five specially
commissioned interactive artworks from regional artists, the festival promises
a wide variety of hands-on art experiences.
The Momentum Exhibition will highlight Toledo’s rich history as the
birthplace of the studio glass movement and current knowledge base in the glass
industry. Musical guests and Daptone
recording artists Orquesta Akokán will bring their big band collective
of the musicians hailing from Havana.
The Toledo
Symphony Orchestra will perform “Water Concerto” by composer Tan Dun (Crouching
Tiger, Hidden Dragon). A wide range of
regional and local musicians and performers will be active in the park
throughout the festival. The Toledo Mini Maker
Faire will showcase more than 20 makers with demonstrations and
hands-on activities. Maker Faire is the
Greatest Show (and Tell) on Earth—a family-friendly showcase of invention,
creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker Movement. Makers range from tech enthusiasts to
crafters to homesteaders to scientists to garage tinkerers of all ages and
backgrounds.
Learn
more at http://momentumtoledo.org/?Hyperallergic18
Prepare to step into Hogwarts at Livraria Lello
bookstore in Porto, Portugal. The
Livraria Lello bookstore in Porto is one of the world's oldest bookstores,
frequently ranked as one of the most beautiful bookstores in the world, and a
top place to visit in Portugal. Opened
in 1906, the bookstore has once a haunt of the city's literary scene and many
say it was a direct inspiration for JK Rowling and her Harry Potter books. Rowling lived in the city from 1991 to 1993
and was a frequent customer. Thank you,
Muse reader!
The Lello
Bookstore, also known
as Livraria Lello & Irmão and Livraria Chardron,
is a bookstore located in civil parish of Cedofeita, Santo Ildefonso, Sé, Miragaia, São Nicolau e
Vitória, in the northern Portuguesemunicipality of Porto. Along with Bertrand in Lisbon, it is one of the oldest bookstores
in Portugal and frequently rated among the
top bookstores in the world (placing third in lists by guidebook
publisher Lonely Planet and The Guardian). Beginning in July 2015, the bookstore began
requesting entrance fees for visitors. On 21 April 2016, an artistic
mural was erected to conceal the scaffolding placed on the facade of the
building, during its restoration, by graffiti writer Dheo and colleague Pariz
One. Dheo painted the
central area of the mural with a pile of old books, a lit candle and a bottle
of Port wine, while the rest was painted by Pariz One with geometric shapes,
referring to the stained glass inside the bookstore. The work took two months to produce. On 31 July, following the restoration, the
main facade of the building was uncovered, showing the laboratory-tested
recovered primitive gray. The bookstore
was frequented by JK Rowling, author of
the Harry Potter series,
when she taught English in Porto and is reported to be an inspiration for her
writing. Read
more and see pictures at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livraria_Lello
http://librariansmuse.blogspot.com Issue 1943
August 29, 2018
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