Friday Links
It’s cold and rainy in Atlanta today. Perfect weather for clicking some links. Here you go:
Earlier this week I missed Neil Gaiman doing his thing at Agnes Scott College. By all accounts it was a smashing success with around a 1000 fans in attendance. Gaiman signed books well past 1 AM for an event that started at 6PM. That’s amazing. The best part of this recap of the event is a quote from a sponsor of the event, Little Shop of Stories co-owner Dave Shallenberger:
Amazon does not put Christmas trees on the roof, Barnes and Noble does not ask you to bring your dogs to story time and Borders does not bring Neil Gaiman to Atlanta.
Amen.
Speaking of bookstores, Laredo, Texas will soon become the largest US city without a bookstore. None.
In the UK, The Telegraph finds that ”Sarah Plain’s gun-toting, meat-eating memoir is petty and shallow.” You don’t say.
The Guardian (also UK) gives Going Rogue the digested read treatment.
The Guardian also compiles a suspect list of the best new words and phrases of the decade.
Omnivoracious talks to Aleksandr Hemon (an author on my 10 favorites of 09 list) about his new anthology of translated European fiction.
December 18, 2009 9:37 am 
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