I’ve been meaning to write a lengthy blog post about Jonathan Karp’s article in the Washington Post all week. Work crises have conspired against letting this happen. Read the article however, it’s worth it. It’s basically about why publishers publish so many books (hint: it’s green and lives in your wallet). Perhaps tomorrow I’ll have more time to write. For now I’m avoiding going outside where it’s pouring biblical style.

From today’s Shelf Awareness:

The much-anticipated film adaptation of Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates will not be finished in time to debut at film festivals in Telluride, Toronto or New York “because [director Sam] Mendes has been shooting the Focus Features comedy Farlanders this summer, a road movie set for 2009 release co-written by Dave Eggers and his wife Vendela Vida,” according to Variety.

Mendes will reportedly “return to the editing bay around Labor Day to do the final mix” on Revolutionary Road in preparation for an opening later this year.

Mendes’s next movie is a film version of George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Variety noted.

Set aside the fact that they made a movie of Revolutionary Road starring Leonardo Dicaprio and Kate Winslet, what’s this about a film of Middlemarch?  How on earth are they going to do it? This book, probably my favorite book which is saying a lot, is so nuanced and lovely. They’ve made miniseries of it, but a two hour film? Wow. I’m not sure how I feel about this.