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Turkish Nobel Laureate Orhan Pamuk delivered his sixth and final Norton lecture at Sanders Theatre yesterday, highlighting the importance of finding a novel’s “secret center...
Pamuk concluded his Norton lecture series with a discussion on the “secret centers” of various literary works, ranging from “Moby Dick” to “Crime and Punishment...
...buying it? There's pent-up demand among his core fans (his last book came out five years ago), but his editor at W.W. Norton, Robert Weil, thinks this book is reaching beyond Crumb's base. One sign he's right is that it's not just selling in comic book stores. Bookscan reported sales in regular bookstores increased the second week. Amazon says most of its buyers are coming from the West Coast, which is not as surprising as the cautious promotion the book got on religious blogs. (See 10 surprising facts about the world's oldest Bible...
...Norton, in emphasizing the literary and artistic nature of the book - there's an accompanying art exhibition in Los Angeles' Hammer Museum - has been promoting it more like an intriguing new rendition of Beowulf than a sacred text. (Perhaps shortsightedly, they did not market the book to Christian bookstores; neither big Bible publishers Zondervan and Thomas Nelson nor the American Bible Society had heard of the volume when contacted.) There's a little synergy at work too: Crumb mostly uses the well-regarded translation by UC Berkeley Professor Robert Alter, another Norton author...
...result of these efforts, the Norton, Mass. native was named Ivy League Football Offensive Player of the Week as well as The Sports Network FCS National Offensive Player of the Week...