Monday Links

December 4, 2006 | 1 book mentioned
  • The Rake takes note of the New Yorker’s particularly dark reading of Goodnight Moon.
  • Iain Hollingshead gamely responds to being awarded the “Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award” for his debut novel Twentysomething, which included such turns of phrase as “everything is pure white as we’re lost in a commotion of grunts and squeaks.”
  • With a few celebs getting in trouble for racist outbursts this year Malcolm Gladwell (ever thoughtful) comes up with a way to figure out who’s really being offensive and who’s just dumb.
  • Maud points to a new blog from one of my favorite publishers, NYRB Press.
  • Dozens of year end-lists floating around here and elsewhere, but I always take special note of Jonathan Yardley’s year-end column because it is always thoughtful and sometimes surprising.
  • To do (as soon as I have the time): listen to the Bat Segundo Show that features Edward P. Jones.

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