• New multicolor editions of Mark Danielewski’s novella The Fifty Year Sword make for stunning visual puzzles. Here, the author discusses it with io9. [1 of 3]
 

today’s Very Short List:
lit 18 Sep 2012

by Patrick James, managing editor of VSL.

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  • The multicolor approach is bold, if not new: William Faulkner had intended to publish The Sound and the Fury like so, but couldn’t do so in his lifetime. [2 of 3]
 
  • But this book is also an event: to be read in concert with music by Christopher O’Riley, who famously composed piano versions of Radiohead tracks. [3 of 3]
 
  • Images (in order): hardcover version of The Fifty Year Sword in Nepalese binding via Pantheon via io9; photo via Folio Society; photo by Mark Danielewski via Instagram.
 
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