"What are the requirements for transforming a book or movie into a cult object?" Mr. Eco asked.
Publishers long ago learned that her imprimatur could transform a promising book into a best seller, so they routinely ship thousands of extra copies to bookstores with instructions not to put them on the shelves until after the show.
Her story on those boozy nights and walkabout days interweaves with those of her lover and his white mates to transform a pallid book into one of fierce color and shape.
And it pointed me towards artists as inventive as Julia Holter, whose past work has included a reading of a John Cage score that saw her transform a cookery book from a 1920s LA church club into a piece of music using field recordings.
What Web readers do not know, however, is that they have also been enlisted in a project to transform an old book, magazine, newspaper or pamphlet into an accurate, searchable and easily sortable computer text file.
Proust famously determined to transform a life into a book, and so too, it seems, did Kafka.
Gross's way out is through a tried and true method, voluminous reading, and while it is hard to transform a litany of books into inspired text, Gross somehow manages to do so.
Betsy, Jennifer and I took a risk by transforming a simple book signing into something bigger than us.
For a one-of-a-kind niche to organize and display your child's books, transform a shutter into a bold, colorful addition to any playroom, bedroom or reading nook.
Through the miracle of the positive review snowball effect, a few hundred rave reviews can transform an otherwise unremarkable book into a worldwide bestseller.
