We’ll be revealing the top 5 vote getters in our “Best Fiction of the Millenium (So Far)” poll on Thursday and Friday. We’d love to hear your predictions here.
What’s Your Top 5?
Literary Interference
To celebrate the beginning of football season, read about how Jack Kerouac's years of high school football might have led to his alcoholism and depression.
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Rolling Readers
"They don't want to get off the bus because they wanted to keep listening." A Texas library system has outfitted a handful of public school buses with wi-fi access and digital audiobooks, reports The Digital Reader. Pair with this celebration of perambulatory reading.
Postcard Nostalgia
Give Rock and Roll Another Name
Chuck Klosterman wonders, which rock stars will historians of the future remember?
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Oddest Titles of the Year
Nominees for The Bookseller Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year have been announced. My favorite, which to me is not odd at all actually, is Bacon: A Love Story. Scatology abounds in this list, including: Peek-a-poo:What's in Your Diaper, and The Origin of Faeces.
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Amazon Shows Off ‘Kindle for the Web’
Amazon is battling the multi-platform capabilities of Google's new ebookstore with its new "Kindle for the Web." The demo makes it look pretty easy on the eyes. Kindle books were already accessible on a number of mobile platforms. What's new here is taking the Kindle capabilities to the PC.
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