This edition of Today in Books is sponsored by The Radical Element edited by Jessica Spotswood.
Markus Zusak’s New YA Novel
Bridge of Clay comes out in October, more than a decade after the publication of Zusak’s international bestselling novel, The Book Thief. Zusak told The New York Times that he struggled with the writing of this book 10 years in the making. Bridge of Clay follows one of five brothers whose mother has died, and whose father returns to ask the boys to help him build a bridge on his property in the wilderness.
Princeton Digitizes More Than 70,000 Religious Texts
And you can explore the collection online. Through the Internet Archive and the work of Princeton University’s Theological Commons’ project, you can read historical thought on religions worldwide, perusing texts including Reginald Scot, Esquire’s 1584 The Discoverie of Witchcraft, L. Austine Waddell’s 1805 The Buddhism of Tibet, and J.G. Frazer’s 1894 The Golden Bough.
Netflix Takes The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society for U.S.
For those in the U.S. wondering how they’d see the adaptation of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows’ The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, fear no more. Netflix has taken the film for the U.S. and other territories. Which is interesting because that means no theatrical release in North America (or Latin America, Italy, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia).