Cuba and the USA, Thierry Bouët photographs precious objects for sale, Two Brothers read by Michael Chabon, Hannah Arendt's personal library, 40 years of Rocky Horror: Cultural Digest for August 18

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• Avoid these common mistakes that writers make when they give readings. I see them all the time!
• Cuba won't be "saved" or that much changed by an opening of the US market, at least not according to Esther Allen.
• The Rocky Horror Picture show celebrates 40 years. Damn it, Janet. We love it!
• Fascinating project by French photographer Thierry Bouët who photographs the second-hand things that people are selling online. 
• Yet more pre-release publicity for Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá's much anticipated graphic novel, Two Brothers. This time by American writer Michael Chabon.
• A look inside Hannah Arendt's personal library.
• I thought this battle had been won?! Montreal's Lafontaine house still fighting to remain relevant, renovated and available for public use.

40 years of doing the Time Warp again

New publishing house for Muslim books based in Ottawa, Murakami on stage, Brazilian brothers' new graphic novel, Luis Alberto Urrea, Storylines at the Guggenheim: Cultural Digest for August 11

• Three sisters in Ottawa have opened a small publishing house to feature works by and about Muslim women and about the Muslim world broadly.
• Luis Alberto Urrea (Blue Met 2014) talks about his latest book, a poetry collection entitled "The Tijuana Book of the Dead."
• Haruki Murakami's book Kafka on the Shore has been made into a stage production that was performed at Lincoln Center in New York in July.
• Anticipation is building for the brotherly duo, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, two of the comics world's biggest names, and their latest book, Two Brothers, which comes out later this fall. Their 2011 book, Daytripper, was one of the best graphic novels/serials I've ever read.
• The Paris Review looks at the connection between writers and the visual arts after a Guggenheim exhibition on the same theme, called Storylines.

Murakami on-stage