- Alice Munro, noted short-story writer, was just awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. A Canadian, her work shares some similarities to mid-century Southern US writers like Flannery O’Connor, including a regional focus and a regular movement to a moment of realization within her tales.
- Speaking of Flannery, here’s our T.M. Doran on the “Harsh Voices and Divine Mercy” in some Catholic authors.
- And speaking of T.M. Doran, here he is featured in the regional mag Plymouth Life.
- How about some more book art? Check out these hidden paintings you can only see by flexing the edges of bound paper, called fore-edge paintings.
- Also, not strictly fiction, but do you know the antique Christian roots of rhyme?
- Lastly, most of our novels are available as ebooks, but people keep trying to make an ebook version of Netflix. The latest entrant? Scribd, whose head honcho has some pretty high expectations, and which you may already have used.
Do you have any interest in a Netflix for books? Or are they trying to catch their own shadow?
Dan at Ignatius
Dan is the web editor of Ignatius Press Novels, and works with the Press in many areas of its internet marketing and outreach.
Dan at Ignatius
October 10, 2013 at 1:24 pm
We have three rapid-fire “yes please”s for a Netflix for ebooks and one no vote (or is it more an abstention?) for the Nobel Prize in general over on Facebook. (Join us on Facebook.)
l
October 10, 2013 at 1:44 pm
the ebook version of netflix is called the Public Library.
Dave Rosanova
October 10, 2013 at 3:25 pm
Yes for ebook / Netflix idea. I purchase eBooks from Kindle, Nook, iTunes and use our local public Library’s electronic system. I would purchase eBooks from I Pess — if you offered them
Dan at Ignatius
October 10, 2013 at 3:34 pm
Thanks for the feedback, Dave. We are happy to have published a number of novels in ebook format, especially our more recent ones. Not the entire catalog (yet), but a growing percentage.
We list all of the formats available in the blue detail box at the bottom of each novel listing. If you go to, say, Frankenstein, you can see we currently offer it in softcover and as an ebook.
Happy browsing!
Patricia Villa
October 11, 2013 at 12:38 pm
CONGRATULATIONS.
Patricia Villa
October 11, 2013 at 12:41 pm
Felicitaciones a Alice Munro.
Sus libros se han publicado en español?
Dónde los puedo comprar.
Dan at Ignatius
October 11, 2013 at 2:46 pm
Patricia, we do not carry her work, and I am sadly not able to speak on Spanish translations. (Though she is widely available up here, and as a Nobel winner one must assume her work will get translated more readily, if it’s not already.)