J. K. Rowling

JK Rowling: The Fringe Benefits of Failure

INSPIONS - Murali's Thought Garage (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008

Its just amazingly vivid, how a failure can help you grow. I love it. Here are a few excerpts. At the link below you can watch a video and download the MP3 as well. J.K. Rowling Speaks at Harvard Commencement : Harvard Magazine J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, [...]

Trust children on books

Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

J K Rowling, Terry Pratchett, Philip Pullman et al are right to oppose "age banding" for children's books (your report, 3 July). By and large, children wil

9 Photos from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

/Film (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008

USA Today has released a new batch of photos from Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Warner Bros has sent us high resolution versions of the photos, which you can check out below. As always, click to enlarge. The article also hints that the upcoming films might stray a little from the books. The idea [...]

Bloodied Harry Potter Featured on Empire Magazine Cover

/Film (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008

The August 2008 issue of Empire Magazine features a new image of a bloodied Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The new issue previews 45 Movies You Need To Know About Right Now, which is basically a fall movie preview. Related Stories: Harry Potter Star Paid $50 Million for Final Two [...]

J.K. Rowling on Studying Classics

Right Mind (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008

Rowling delivered the commencement address at Harvard University a few weeks ago. She said some pretty incredible things. Here is an excerpt from Harvard Magazine : I was convinced that the only thing...( read more )

'Harry' boasts about Trainspotting moments

Tonight (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008

Actor Daniel Radcliffe says the new Harry Potter film will have drug metaphors and sexual references similar to the 1996 film about Scottish heroin addicts.

Set of signed Harry Potter books sold at auction

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 02/07/2008

London - A set of first edition Harry Potter books signed by author JK Rowling has been sold for 17,800 pounds (34,700 dollars) at auction in Britain, it was reported Wednesday. The set of seven hardbacks, each carrying Rowling's signature on their i...

• Signed Harry Potter first edition sells for £17,800 - The Telegraph
• Potter books set sells for £17,800 - Daily Express
• See the 6 articles on the same subject

PostSecret meets SMITH meets U.K.’s B&N

SMITH Magazine (Free subscription) | 01/07/2008

Last fall, I was running out of money in Edinburgh, Scotland and looking for work. I applied for a temporary Christmas job at Waterstone’s, the U.K.’s largest mega-chain bookstore. I filled out a ten page application and didn’t hear a thing—until I checked my mail about a month later. Waterstone’s had sent me a rejection [...]

Come to the public meeting!!!

Kings Cross Local Environment (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008

Support your community, support your access to your local train and tube station!!! 16 July. 7pm. Blessed Sacrament Church, Copenhagen Street. King's Cross Railway Lands Group and King's Cross Community Projects invite you personally. This is your chance to show...

A Book Meme

Be Lambic or Green (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008

Shatnerian tagged me (he tagged me on Facebook, what’s that all about'). The following is a list compiled by the BBC of books we’re supposed to have read. Bold means I’ve read it, underlined means I love it and italics (red) means I started it but didn’t finish. 36 is part of 33 so I’m not [...]

Edinburgh to honour JK Rowling’s achievements

FantasyBookReview.co.uk blog (Free subscription) | 28/06/2008

JK Rowling looks set to be honoured by the city of Edinburgh for her contributions to literature. The fantasy author’s handprints will be immortalised in the quadrangle outside the City Chambers and she will also receive a special award due to the honour that her achievements have brought the Scottish city. Edinburgh hopes that this [...]

Harry Potter Prequel Update

Zath (Free subscription) | 28/06/2008

To all you Harry Potter fans eagerly waiting to read the ‘Harry Potter prequel’…….here you go! You can now find it over at the Waterstones - What’s Your Story? website. It’s only a very short story that’s about 800 words, and it’s about James Potter and Sirius Black and an altercation with the police. You can find [...]

Press Complaints Commission Denies Harry Potter Author's Complaint Concerning Media Invasion of Privacy

Media Law Prof Blog (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008

The Press Complaints Commission has told "Harry Potter" author J. K. Rowling that publication of information about her new digs somewhere near her existing property in Perthshire does not amount to an invasion of privacy. The PCC told the writer...

• Harry Potter author JK Rowling's privacy complaint rejected by PCC - The Guardian
• What is 'publicly available to a significant extent'? - Martin Moore Blog

JK Rowling and her advice to students (on fear and imagination)

The World's Fair (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008

This is actually very nicely done - a commencement speech by JK Rowling at Harvard a few weeks ago. I've embedded the movie file below the fold for convenience, but full details (as well as the transcript of the speech) can be found here Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...

The Quoteable I Ching

'Answers' I Ching blog (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008

You’ll want to subscribe to the Quoteable I Ching blog, if you haven’t already. Despite the title, it doesn’t just contain quotations from the I Ching, but lovely lucid thoughts on how other things - poems, images, quotations - reflect the hexagrams. Or how the hexagrams reflect in other things. I enjoyed all the posts so [...]