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Google Print

Not quite sure how or when I missed this, but I discovered while working on the preceding post that Google Print is up and running in beta. I recall hearing about this project late last year but the fact the beta was actually up somehow escaped me.

The beta not only provides a variety of […]

More on McEwan

As I’ve indicated, the clarity of writing and expression isn’t the only reason I am so impressed with Ian McEwan‘s Saturday. Another part of it was he seemed to put on paper thoughts virtually identical to my own on a variety of topics, from post-9/11 society to the power of music. What perhaps hit closest […]

Pulitzer Prizes

I don’t pay as much attention to the Pulitzer Prizes as I did when I was a journalist. Now I mainly look at the literary awards, although my experience has been that Pulitzer winners are generally fairly serious tomes, particularly the non-fiction.

Anyway, the 2005 winners were announced today and include:

FICTION, Gilead, Marilynne Robinson

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SF book awards

While I was in Seattle, the Philip K. Dick Award winner was announced at Norwescon, one of the country’s larger science fiction conventions. (I did not go to Seattle for nor did I attend Norwescon.) The award is for “distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States.” This year’s winner was […]

Book recommendation

As you can tell from the list at the right, I read a bit. While much is enjoyable, there isn’t a tremendous amount that really, really draws me in. That’s particularly so with non-fiction. That said, go buy The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David Shipler.

I have not read any of his […]