Amuse-bouche
Holy crap. Paste magazine is taking a page out of the Radiohead playbook. For a limited time you can pay whatever you like for a one-year subscription. $1 or $300. Run, don’t walk.
Junot Diaz won this year’s Sargent Prize for Best First Novel.
Like me, Book Ninja hasn’t read The Road yet. I said that I would get to it by the end of the year (along with Half of a Yellow Sun). I’ll stick to that. Says BN:
The Road fits into my list of “should see/read” movies and books. I know it’s good, I know it’s probably good FOR me, I know I SHOULD read it, but I just don’t know that I can take the emotional equivalent of shaken baby syndrome. It’s like Schindler’s List: I still haven’t seen it. Why? I can’t seem find a day when I feel emotionally together enough to choose to get sucker punched in the heart. It’s even worse with fiction.
Chabon talks to NPR about his new adventure novel, which was originally to be called “Jews with Swords.”
Slate gets writers to name “the great novel I never read.” Two authors own up to not reading the Harry Potter series.
And I almost forgot, Joe Pernice guest blogged at Powell’s about hanging out with William Gibson. Pernice’s book Meat is Murder is fantastic.
November 2, 2007 9:05 am 
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