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October 23, 2006
Monday Links
- Friend of The Millions Edan Lepucki has a short story in the most recent LA Times West Magazine, "Salt Lick". Congrats!
- I've heard of publishers throwing in a free bookmark to help sell copies of a new book, but gold?
- Oriani Fallaci, the fiery (and athiest) Italian journalist who recently passed away, bequethed her library to a Pontifical university.
- Boston Globe columnist Alex Beam takes the Sony Reader for a spin and isn't impressed.
- Did you know that among this year's finalists is the first graphic novel ever to be in the running for a National Book Award? Gene Luen Yang's American Born Chinese has been given that honor. "I can't say it's a dream come true, because it never even would have occurred to me to dream it. It wasn't in my reality," Yang says.
- John Hodgman is at it again with one of the more antic Washington Post chats I've ever encountered. (via Books are my only friends)
- C. Max Magee @ 7:57 AM ~
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The Eye Books 'gold share' campaign is quite interesting. It's a great publicity stunt and more so, may actually deepen readers experience of the book. It's much easier to absorb the isolation of, and endurance demanded by a mine, if you have a share in one.....
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