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Michael's Chabon's "The Yiddish Policeman's Union" has become the first book ever to be nominated for the Nebula, Edgar, and the Hugo awards.

Funny stuff :-)

THREE-FOR-A-DOLLAR FEEDER FISH: Steve Almond
Has sex once a month with fans he meets through MySpace. Receives up to three e-mails a day from a mix of MFA students at community colleges, Centipedes in the Darkness wanting blurbs, and 14-year-old girls who have lived their entire lives in gated communities. Will not be forgotten easily even after he is dead and his books are out of print because of how easy it is to talk shit about him...

USED HONDA CIVIC IN "GREAT" CONDITION: Jonathan Franzen/ Rick Moody/David Foster Wallace
Published novels at first, then got distracted and published nonfiction books, story collections, essay collections, and other things that made them less powerful. Also held back by their inability to write about the Holocaust, genocide in Africa, racism, or the immigrant experience;

Hari Kunzru's website. Nice book cover!

Quoted: Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist, Transmission, and the short story collection Noise. In 2003 he was named one of Granta's Best of Young British novelists. His new novel, My Revolutions, is published in the UK on 30th August 2007.

As of yesterday evening I've been irretrievably caught up in "Them." For a few days I was thinking of stopping halfway because the characters didn't seem very believable. But she threw in a plot twist that blew my mind, and now I can't put it down.

This site has a list of her work, along with an audio interview, related articles, and links. She's so incredibly prolific. Her latest is "The Gravedigger's Daughter," which I haven't read yet.

Quoted: 'Them' (1969) "In 'Them' [Oates] has taken up with a collection of louche louts and cunning simpletons gathered together in and around the city of Detroit, Mich.; she has furnished them with a nice little streak of domesticated craziness that keeps the novel fluid and enables it to hit us, every so often, a crashing unpredictable blow over the back of the head."

Going to go see this tonight, I think...

Brief, informative, and very touching. This story illuminates recent Haitian history through the life of an adopted member of Edwidge Danticat's extended family. The uncle also sounds like an amazing person.

Quoted: Upon joining the Macoutes, you received an identification card that declared your alliance to Papa Doc, an indigo denim uniform, a homburg hat, a .38, and the privilege of doing whatever you wanted.