For today’s Covered Bridge, some book news.
The Wallstreet Journal is reporting on new editions of Alice in Wonderland set to commemorate the one-of-a-kind fiction’s 150th anniversary. 
From the Journal:
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland,” Lewis Carroll’s 1865 classic about a pert girl in a pinafore who falls down a rabbit hole into a magical and menacing underground world, is marking its 150th anniversary with new translations. She is Alis (in Yiddish), or Alisi (in Tongan) or Anya (in Russian), and, despite her advanced age, to readers everywhere she remains a curious youngster whose adventures have never gone out of print.
That’s not all. Some other editions are getting downright experimental:
Two Yale professors are translating “Alice” into Late Egyptian hieroglyphs. A language consultant in California is putting the finishing touches on a Kazakh translation. There is an emoji version. An edition in Scouse, the dialect of Liverpool, is with the publisher; so are ones in Cockney rhyming slang and in two Afghan languages, Dari and Pashto. The Gothic translation came out just last week.
If you have more than a passing interest in the world of competitive cycling check out the VISTA Authors review of Chester County resident David Chauner’s new book “High Road: Chasing the Yellow Jersey”. From our review:
And now there’s David Chauner’s “High Road: Chasing the Yellow Jersey”, a steamy, pulpy love letter to international cycling and the Tour de France at the predawn of American interest in the sport—sometime in the 1980’s.
The novel follows the career of Kurt Dufour, Dartmouth track star, scion of a wealthy Connecticut family and son to a former racer. After a tragic romantic episode followed by a murder trial, Kurt agrees to join Otto Werner’s cycling team as a hard right turn away from an early, failed start to his adulthood.
Chauner will be at the Chester County Book Company tonight to sign copies and answer questions. Find more information here.
Finally, this morning the Library of Congress announced the poet laurels would pass for the first time to a Latino writer. Juan Filipe Herrera, already California’s sitting Laureate, will serve next as the country’s chief ambassador of the artform. From NPR:
Along the way, Herrera has been prolific — so prolific, in fact, that few seem to agree just how many books the man has written. (Some say 30, others 29, and the Library of Congress says 28. We’ll just put the number at “dozens.”) Those works include poetry collections, novels in verse and plenty of children’s books. Across this body of work, the shadow of California, and his cultural heritage, has loomed large.
