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Given some of the more intense scenes and themes in Margo Lanagan’s dark, boundary-pushing, and extravagantly written Tender Morsels, it wasnt outrageous to expect something a little scandalous in her acceptance speech at the 2009 Michael L. Printz Awards (administered by ALA Young Adult

http://blog.booklistonline.com/2009/11/09/margo-lanagans-2009-printz-speech/

Obscure Books, Part II

Blog | papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com | 3 hours 27 minutes ago

The American Conservative, in its "Special Books Issue," has asked 15 writers to name their favorite obscure books.

http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/obscure-books-part-ii/

How Cool Became Uncool

Blog | www.powells.com | 5 hours 20 minutes ago

Powell's Books is the largest independent used and new bookstore in the world. We carry an extensive collection of out of print rare, and technical titles as well as many other new and used books in every field.

http://www.powells.com/blog/?p=10293

On canon formation

News | www.bookninja.com | 5 hours 27 minutes ago

Philip Marchand ruminates, as Philip Marchand is wont to do, on what role awards like the Giller Prize (announced tomorrow night in a Harperesque televised gala) play in the formation of our shared (read: academically inherited) sense of value.One thing required for the formation of a canon is

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Harlequin tries for some online love with digital publishing venture | Quill & Quire

Blog | www.quillandquire.com | 5 hours 29 minutes ago

Daily updates from the blog division of Quill & Quire, Canada’s magazine of book news and reviews Harlequin Enterprises, best known as a publisher of romance novels in the traditional dead tree format, has just launched an online publishing house, Carina

http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/09/harlequin-tries-for-some-online-love-with-digital-publishing-venture/

Reading Saddam's Biography in Baghdad

Blog | atwar.blogs.nytimes.com | 5 hours 33 minutes ago

Readers in Iraq are eager to read a new biography of Saddam Hussein, but the government is less than enthusiastic about making it available to them.

http://atwar.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/reading-saddams-biography-in-baghdad/?partner=rss&emc=rss

What Are You Reading?

Blog | terrywhalin.blogspot.com | 7 hours 43 minutes ago

It’s a familiar routine. I’m on the way to another conference as I write these words on an airplane. Airports have always been a fascinating opportunity to see what people are reading. Or I observe if they are reading at all. A cross section of the population travels on a regular basis.

http://terrywhalin.blogspot.com/2009/11/what-are-you-reading.html

Simon Mawer's The Glass Room is BBC Radio 4 Book at Bedtime

Blog | www.littlebrown.co.uk | 7 hours 55 minutes ago

Welcome to Little, Brown Book Group one of the UK's leading publishers of fiction and non-fiction. Read extracts, browse books and find out about our bestselling authors.

http://www.littlebrown.co.uk/Blog/November-2009/Simon-Mawer-The-Glass-Room-BBC-R4-Book-at-Bedtime

Polish Poetry Now

Blog | www.wordswithoutborders.org | 9 hours 16 minutes ago

Last week, the Polish Cultural Institute presented a two-part symposium at Poets House that sought to address questions on the nature and identity of Polish poets working today. The program began Tuesday with a panel discussion, and culminated with readings by each of the four participating poets

http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?post=PolishPoetryNow