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All sorts of interesting literary tidbits this week!!
First, one of my readers suggested highlighting the most anticipated books of 2008 — Great Idea!
Second, check out my first guest post for Book Group Buzz on 10 Innovative Ways to Recharge Your Book Club!
Third, inspired by all of the great feedback from my survey, I’m introducing a new feature: Ask Me!
Now, on to what’s hot, surprising, and significant in the world of books…
- Kate Christensen wins the PEN/Faulkner award for The Great Man.
- An interesting post on Obama‘s use of Faulkner in his recent speech (“The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past”).
- Nice follow-up to my recent post on Zora Neale Hurston‘s Their Eyes Were Watching God
- No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency attacked over tribal stereotypes
- A cute Kafkaesque spoof on the recent memoir as fiction debacle.
- Curious about the difference between mass-market and trade paperbacks?
- Following the literary March madness? Check your brackets!
- Remembering Arthur C. Clarke and his predictions
- Ian McEwen questioned
- Border’s “face-out” strategy is still causing a commotion, but is it too little too late?
- Does your book club have genrephobia?
- Boycotts, bomb threats, falling panels and fisticuffs: it’s time for another Salon du Livre de Paris.
Whew… Big week in the literary world! Happy Sunday!
