Our own Lydia Kiesling, a past winner of the 3 Quarks Daily Prize in Arts & Literature, is a finalist for this year’s prize for her Modern Library Revue of Sister Carrie.
The Millions in the 3QD Finals
Bodleian Treasures
A first edition of Don Quixote, fragments of Sappho, and a lock of Percy Shelley's hair all in one place: Oxford's Bodleian Libraries.
Michiko Kakutani on Jonathan Franzen’s “Freedom”
At The New York Times, Michiko Kakutani gets in an early review of Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom, heralding it “his most deeply felt novel yet.”
Huck Finn, Improved
Cartoonist Ruben Bolling has identified some additional ways in which Huck Finn might be cleaned up for today's delicate readers.
Writerly Pets
Famous authors and their dogs, photographed by Jill Krementz. Via The Daily Dish.
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“What they are, what they should be”
The Rooster Longlist
For the first time in the history of The Morning News' Tournament of Books, the longlist of all the titles under consideration has been published. From these titles, 16 will emerge for the literary throwdown in March.
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