Comments on: Books Remixed http://blog.vromans.com/books-remixed Independent Bookstore Mon, 16 Apr 2012 20:54:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: praymont http://blog.vromans.com/books-remixed/comment-page-1#comment-1054 praymont Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:04:13 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=875#comment-1054 There's also Pawel Huelle's Castorp, which is a prequel to Mann's Magic Mountain. There’s also Pawel Huelle’s Castorp, which is a prequel to Mann’s Magic Mountain.

]]> By: Willy http://blog.vromans.com/books-remixed/comment-page-1#comment-1043 Willy Tue, 16 Jun 2009 15:59:53 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=875#comment-1043 Marguerite Duras--like Maile Meloy and Cat Power--rewrote her book THE LOVER in THE NORTH CHINA LOVER, after the original novel was made into a film. Marguerite Duras–like Maile Meloy and Cat Power–rewrote her book THE LOVER in THE NORTH CHINA LOVER, after the original novel was made into a film.

]]> By: Shandon http://blog.vromans.com/books-remixed/comment-page-1#comment-1038 Shandon Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:53:23 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=875#comment-1038 Bridget Jones's Diary is a pretty adept modern version of Pride & Prejudice. John Gardner's Grendel retells Beowulf from the "monster's" point of view. Brian Aldiss wrote a whole series of semi-sequels based on classic monster stories: Frankenstein Unbound, Dracula Unbound, An Island Called Moreau. And what about The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall? Her takeoff on Gone with the Wind landed her in legal hot water and the book had to be released with the words "An Unauthorized Parody" emblazoned on the front cover, even though Ms. Randall herself considered it a retelling, not a parody. Bridget Jones’s Diary is a pretty adept modern version of Pride & Prejudice. John Gardner’s Grendel retells Beowulf from the “monster’s” point of view. Brian Aldiss wrote a whole series of semi-sequels based on classic monster stories: Frankenstein Unbound, Dracula Unbound, An Island Called Moreau. And what about The Wind Done Gone by Alice Randall? Her takeoff on Gone with the Wind landed her in legal hot water and the book had to be released with the words “An Unauthorized Parody” emblazoned on the front cover, even though Ms. Randall herself considered it a retelling, not a parody.

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]]> By: Edan http://blog.vromans.com/books-remixed/comment-page-1#comment-1034 Edan Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:18:17 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=875#comment-1034 Doesn't that Edgar Sawtelle book retell Hamlet? And, on the subject of Shakespeare, there's Jane Smiley's 1000 Acres, which retells King Lear. My favorite lit remix, though, is Anne Carson's Autobiography of Red, the novel in verse that retells the myth of Herakles killing the red-winged monster Gyron. In Carson's version, it's Gyron's story, and he's a boy, in love with cooler, older, cruel Herakles. It is beautiful. Doesn’t that Edgar Sawtelle book retell Hamlet? And, on the subject of Shakespeare, there’s Jane Smiley’s 1000 Acres, which retells King Lear. My favorite lit remix, though, is Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red, the novel in verse that retells the myth of Herakles killing the red-winged monster Gyron. In Carson’s version, it’s Gyron’s story, and he’s a boy, in love with cooler, older, cruel Herakles. It is beautiful.

]]> By: Seth http://blog.vromans.com/books-remixed/comment-page-1#comment-1031 Seth Fri, 12 Jun 2009 20:40:41 +0000 http://blog.vromans.com/?p=875#comment-1031 My favorite recent example of a remixed book has to be Christopher Moore's <strong>Fool</strong>, the ribald reimagining of Shakespeare's <strong>King Lear</strong>. I'm interested to see how the recent developments in Intellectual Property, particularly the advent of the Creative Commons license, will change the way we look at remixing books. Web 2.0 author Mur Lafferty, I know, has released at least some of her books under a Creative Commons license, and J.C. Hutchins, another web 2.0 author who's experiencing mainstream success, encouraged other writers to play around in his <strong>7th Son</strong> univere. My favorite recent example of a remixed book has to be Christopher Moore’s Fool, the ribald reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear.

I’m interested to see how the recent developments in Intellectual Property, particularly the advent of the Creative Commons license, will change the way we look at remixing books. Web 2.0 author Mur Lafferty, I know, has released at least some of her books under a Creative Commons license, and J.C. Hutchins, another web 2.0 author who’s experiencing mainstream success, encouraged other writers to play around in his 7th Son univere.

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