Book links round-up: D.W. Wilson wins BBC Award, new Dr. Seuss book, and more

• Twenty-six-year-old B.C. native D.W. Wilson becomes the youngest author to win BBC’s £15,000 National Short Story Award
• Seven rediscovered tales by Dr. Seuss are released today in The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories
• Chick-lit genre sees sales slump
• Amazon set to unveil new tablet device tomorrow

Book links round-up: the Nabokovia butterfly, literary bandits, and more

• Patti Smith to collaborate with playwright John Logan on screenplay of her memoir Just Kids
• Odd things named after writers
• After five decades, a book of lost Dr. Seuss stories to hit shelves this September
• Rare book collector sparks debate over manuscript he says was written by famous outlaw Butch Cassidy
• A preview of fall books marking the 10th anniversary of 9/11

Bookmarks: Barry Hannah, Dr. Seuss, Wayson Choy, Lynn Coady, and more

Some book-related links for hump day:

• Barry Hannah, R.I.P.
• Want the Dr. Seuss app? (Okay, but do you need it?)
• Wayson Choy thinks we need to take better care of ourselves
• Lynn Coady’s advice for struggling authors
• Saudi Arabian satire wins International Prize for Arabic Fiction
• What does literary modernism owe to the phonograph?

Bookmarks: J.K. Rowling tweets, Dr. Seuss raps, and Charles Dickens fights pirates

Bookish links from around the Web:

• Douglas Coupland really wants you to name his new Toronto park, and Scott Feschuk wants you to name his dog
• J.K. Rowling is now on Twitter, The Huffington Post reports, but she follows no one and has only three tweets. The billionaire author has 49,570 followers despite the fact that she doesn’t seem to comprehend what a tweet is
• Dr. Seuss’ Fox in Sox gets the beat box treatment. As Scope Notes says, “If you knew that Dr. Seuss invented the word ‘crunk,’ then this will seem like a natural combination”
• Charles Dickens: writer, social reformer … pirate fighter? It’s not what you think
• In honour of Banned Books Week in the U.S., here’s an interactive map of books that have been challenged and banned in a country that prides itself on freedom of speech (apparently, people still have an issue with gay penguins). The American Library Association also has a video to help children understand what Banned Book Week means 
• The Telegraph finds 50 factual errors in Dan Brown’s best-selling novels

Bookmarks: Britain’s most avid reader, library-themed ice cream flavours, and more

Some quirky bookish links from around the Web:

• Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax, arguably one of the most message-heavy children’s books, is being made into a 3D CG-animated feature film to be released in March 2012
• Most disturbing celebrity-turned-author news since Lauren Conrad: Jennifer Love Hewitt has two books on the horizon
• A 91-year-old Scottish woman has borrowed nearly 25,000 books from her local library since 1946 – all without incurring a single late fee
• MobyLives pulls out all the stops in a rebuttal to a Baltimore Sun article that suggests not buying books is a good way to save money
• Library-themed ice cream flavours? I’d like a scoop of Gooey Decimal System, please!

Horton: the movie

Dr. Seuss is sacred. Who doesn’t remember the unmistakable illustrations and wonderfully offbeat plots of childhood classics such as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, and so many more?

In recent years, Hollywood has been seizing on the enduring popularity of the books and reinterpreting Seuss for film. First came How the Grinch Stole Christmas — in live action with Jim Carrey in the title role and lots of prosthetic make-up. Then, a live-action Cat in the Hat starring Mike Myers.

So what title from the Seuss canon will Hollywood disfigure next? Why, Horton Hears a Who, of course. As the Book Standard reports, Horton will star Jim Carrey and Steve Carell as the voices of the CGI-animated Horton and the mayor of Whoville, respectively.

Quillblog does not deny that Steve Carell has his moments of comedic brilliance, but still.

The problem is determining how to reconcile an adult appreciation for the fine talents of Steve Carell with nostalgia for the faded Seuss-illustrated pages of childhood. Any suggestions?

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More details on Horton at the Book Standard