This is the sixth in a weekly series that brings together the articles, reviews, interviews and miscellany that has caught my eye over the past seven days. Including: H. R. Giger’s artwork for Frank Herbert’s Dune; an two-part interview about the letters of Samuel Beckett; and the total figure that Truman Capote’s ashes raised at auction. Take a look, and feel free to share!

Literature, Poetry, Theatre

• J. M. Coetzee and the Art of Slow Reading
• The Letters of Samuel Beckett: An interview with Dan Gunn (Part 1 | Part 2)
• Photograph of James Joyce and Sylvia Beach at Shakespeare and Company, 1922
• Listen to over 8 hours of Charles Dickens stories read by Orson Welles, Boris Karloff, Richard Burton & More
• H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu in Anime: A First Glimpse
• First UK edition of Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1958)
• Truman Capote’s ashes auctioned off for $43,750
• CFP: Virginia Woolf and the World of Books, Reading, July 2017
• László Krasznahorkai‘s The Last Wolf and Herman
• Drama on BBC Radio 3: Radio Beckett

Art, Design, Photography

• H. R. Giger on Dune
• A 3D Tour of Picasso’s Guernica

Music

• David Bowie: celebrated by his friends
• Video: Ken Burns on the Savory Collection

Film & TV

• Reality is Analog: Philosophizing with Stranger Things

News & Politics

• Trayvon Martin’s parents are writing a memoir