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Friday Round-Up

The Tournament of Books has announced their long list for the 2008 contest. The Tournament starts on March 7th, and brackets will be posted soon. In the meantime, Powell’s has discounted all of this year’s contenders.

The New York Review of Books has two excellent essays that are well worth your time. In the first, author/bookseller Larry McMurtry reviews Custerology by Michael Elliott. In the second Brian Urquhart, former UN Under-Secretary, reviews Surrender is Not an Option by former US Ambassador to the UN, Michael Bolton.

Comics author Jason (I Killed Adolph Hitler) is writing a new strip, Low Moon, for the New York Times Funny Pages.

Do you find yourself wishing that you were romantically involved with a self-involved crapheads? Did you read Ayn Rand’s Fountainhead and think to yourself, “Wow, Howard raping Dominique, that’s a love story for the ages?” If so, there’s a dating service just for you. (via Paper Cuts)

The San Francisco Chronicle has a list of the 8 comic books that you should read before you die (via Largehearted Boy).

Speaking of comics, Jonathan Lethem is the author a new comic series, Omega the Unknown. You can read the first installment here.

Ellen Forney, the illustrator of Sherman Alexie’s Diary of a Part-Time Indian, has a new collection of definitely adult drawings. The book, Lust: Kinky Online Personal Ads from Seattle’s The Stranger, is a collection of drawings that Forney posted on her blog each week that were based on real personal ads.