Wednesday Catch-Up: Linkage, Day of ABA
Time gets away from one, doesn't it? Out of respect for your schedules which I'm sure are as busy as mine, let's do fun links first, then some chronicle reading. Link Madness - The Lit-Blog Co-Op has announced the winner of the Winter Read This! selection : the highly praised but sadly under-read novel WIZARD OF THE CROW by N'gugi wa Thiong'o! It's a meaty, surreal, hilarious, challenge of a novel, and the conversation promises to be a good one. In the meantime, the next few weeks on the LBC will be devoted to the discussions of the two runners-up: SEVEN LOVES by Valerie Trueblood and DEMON THEORY by Stephen Graham Jones. They're all irresistably interesting, if not universally beloved, so stop by the LBC website and take in the smarty-pants book club conversation, and even add your own two cents. - My boss sent me a link to this article in the New York Sun . The often-conservative paper has a surprising article covering indie bookstore openings in th...