This Week’s Reading, 29.7.12

Salt Publishing and Booker, Flannery O’Connor rare reading, druggy self-portraits, Banksy’s Olympics and more.

• Leader image: Detail from Russian poster for Tarkovsky’s last film, The Sacrifice. Full version here.

• Why adults should read adult books.

• Druggy self-portraits, featuring the paintings of Bryan Lewis Saunders.

• Listen to a rare 1959 recording of Flannery O’Connor reading ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’.

• The doodles, drawings and paintings of Bukowski and his project Atomic Scribblings from a Maniac Age.

• Has the Booker prize got a bias for English writers?

• Talking of the Man Booker Prize, we’d like to congratulate our fellow independents Salt Publishing and their long listed book The Lighthouse by Alison Moore.

• Nominate your Not the Booker Prize 2012 title now.

• How and why legendary science fiction writer Ursula Le Guin has been pressured to write Harry Potters.

• Banksy’s London 2012 Olympics graffiti.

• The poem Am Pe Nimeni, by Romanian poet Ion Caraion, with an English translation.

• The site for Felix van Groeningen’s new film, The Broken Circle Breakdown.

• And, finally, a trailer for Life of Pi, the long awaited Ang Lee adaptation of Yann Martel’s novel: