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* Other folks begin hauling in those 2666 ARCs

* And some are still waiting (well actually, not any more)

* And we all may be waiting a long, long time for Garcia Marquez's purported new novel. Marcelo has some evidence that there may be no novel after all.

* I'm with the Literary Saloon. Shameless as it may be, if the so-called best of the Booker gets people reading The Siege of Krishnapur, then it can't be all bad

* The Economist profiles artist Philip Guston, perhaps well-known as the man who joined up with that other, literary Philip to pillory Richard Nixon

* The University of Chicago Press has published a previously untranslated work from the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize. There's also audio of a reading from the work.

* Middlebrow mediocrity is the least of it. I just got through wading through the list of authors scheduled to appear at BEA, and the clear majority of the books these people had written simply sounded hilariously bad. It made me long for those earnest, mediocre writers that are blessed with even a tiny bit of good sense.

* Chad points me to the Estonian Literary Magazine

* Winning the Nobel is hard

* Columbia University Press points you to an interview with The Song of Everlasting Sorrow's translator

* This is ambitious. It'd be cool if an American publisher, or a group of them, tried to do this.

* I pray for a future where I don't have to read Janet Maslin talking about James Frey "hitting one out of the park"

*  And while I'm down here on my knees, I might as will ask for a future where I don't have to listen to Cokie Roberts talking about American history

Comments

[Marcelo]

On Janet Maslin's review of Frey: I also pray for a future in which I do not have to read book reviews in which the critic "ventriloquizes" the author's style and voice in writing her review, as Maslin did ... And as Kakutani did in reviewing Kunkel ... And so on ...

[John Fox]

I'm going to BookExpo, too. It'd be nice to hang out . . .

[BERT]

totally agree regarding Cokie Roberts who is hooked into the Wash DC crowd big time- her brother is a big time lobbyist and she is so arrogant and haughty in her commentaries- really hard to take.

where are the real journalists- there are so many connected pundits that no one is objective or untouched anymore.