Talk:A Medicine for Melancholy

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Cover of book

So I noticed that this article has no infobox, and decided to add one. I did a Google search for "A Medicine for Melancholy" and came up with two very different cover images:

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Most recent cover of book

I know that the newer one looks better and is in the same style as the covers shown on related articles The Golden Apples of the Sun and I Sing the Body Electric, but I think I read from somewhere that older editions (preferrably first editions) are preferred to the more well-known new editions. Does anybody have any suggestions for which one to put up on the infobox? Breed Zona 21:04, 14 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Given the 60¢ price on the cover you posted, I believe it is the 1967 Bantam printing. I've added a scan of the dust-jacket from the Doubleday (first edition) and moved yours to later in the article.--Rtrace 17:01, 8 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

A couple of ideas

I think this article could use some notes on the stories themselves (I'm not talking about summaries). For example, "In a Season of Calm Weather," was the basis for the movie The Picasso Summer; "Icarus Montgolfier Wright," (written in 1956), predicted going to the moon in August 1970; "The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit," was adopted into a stage play which was later published in a separate book; and "The First Night of Lent," was kind of inspired by Bradbury's work on the movie Moby Dick (he went to Ireland in 1953 to write the screenplay for John Huston). Maybe it's just trivia, but I love trivia, and I personally don't ever think of something like that as unimportant. Should there also be a footnote in there that some of the stories were previously published while others weren't? __209.179.42.140 (talk) 20:35, 15 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]