This just in from Publishers Weekly: "Vietnamese-Australian writer Nam Le is the second winner of the biannual Dylan Thomas Book Prize, which awards £60,000 ($100,000) to a writer under 30 and working in English." (The full report is here.) Le won for his book The Boat, whose seven short stories travel the globe almost as … Continue reading Up and Coming and in Minneapolis
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Man Fails to Bite Dog
Good news. No one showed up to protest a reading by Sherry Jones, author of The Jewel of Medina. The book--which tells the story of A'isha, the youngest of the prophet Muhammad's wives--was originally scheduled to be published in the US by Random House, but the publisher dropped the title from its list after a … Continue reading Man Fails to Bite Dog
Looking Up in Lowertown
Dwell magazine has a slideshow of a nifty set of shelves in St Paul. I admit it, I'm jealous.--David E
Musings from Magers and Quinn 