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New HHGTTG Book?

Is it true?  Is it necessary?  There’s a new book for the Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy written by YA author Eion Colfer?  I can’t imagine what he will do with the franchise, since Adams seemed to have exhausted any other possible plot developments.  The series is quite uneven.  The original trilogy is well paced, but mostly because it was workshopped for BBC Radio.  When Adams left that structure, like with the Dirk Gently series, he seemed to have lost steam.   It will be interesting if Colfer can re-invent/re-boot the crew, morose androids et al.

Jung's Red Book Published

News from the other worlds of academic psychiatry and myth: Carl Jung’s unpublished Liber Novus (The New Book), a large heavy work bound in red leather binding and filled with esoteric illuminations and scripts is being published.  Commonly known as The Red Book it was the result of an internal travelogue Jung took over several years, charting his anxieties and desires through mythic imagery. His heirs never allowed it to be published or viewed by scholars. The NYT has a long, interesting and detailed article describing the journey to publication this odd impressive work has taken.