Electric Literature has posted a “Map of the City Where Every Novel Takes Place,” so now you can know exactly how to get from Middlemarch to The Jungle Book via Jurassic Park.
Where Every Novel Takes Place
Write to Win
Want to win a house? A goat farm? A country bed-and-breakfast? Write an essay.
Hitchens on Bin Laden
Christopher Hitchens has a new 5,000-word piece out today on Osama bin Laden in Kindle Single form.
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Oh, shit: looks like many of our curse words are quickly going extinct. (There is good news, however, contained in this delightful sentence: “Still, according to Sheidlower, f-bomb enthusiasts need not fret too much.”)
Sonya’s Favorite Novel of the Millenium (So Far)
At The Second Pass, check out my review of Everyman’s Rules for Scientific Living, an unsung gem of a novel by Australian writer Carrie Tiffany.
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Most Anticipated Addenda
Conversational Reading has put together its own “most anticipated” books list that has some overlap with our own. It’s also worth noting that the trend of posthumous publication noted in our Most Anticipated introduction, was plumbed with considerably more depth at The Quarterly Conversation last year.