June 19, 2008


The Serialized Case of Benjamin Button

If you’re at all like me, you’re exceedingly excited about David Fincher’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” (with Tilda Swinton, Cate Blanchett, and Brad Pitt, and in theatres this Xmas). Also if you’re at all like me, you probably would like to read the original story in anticipation of the film, but you probably don’t want to read it in the crappy HTML version that’s available on the University of Virginia’s website.

With that in mind, I’ve decided to put together a nicely typeset and proofread (lots of little—but obvious—typos in the UVA text) version and serialize it, one chapter per day over the next eleven weekdays, over at my site. Chapter One (PDF) is available now.

I apologize for shamelessly promoting my own crap here at the ‘flock, but it seems like the sort of thing you guys and gals might be interested in.

posted by Jonathan McNicol in design, literature, movies, typography 

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One Response to “The Serialized Case of Benjamin Button”

  1. Andrew Simone on June 19th, 2008 at 1:24 pm

    I don’t think there is a damn thing here that isn’t self-promotion in one way or another. No apologies necessary.

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