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A few items of interest that passed my screen recently: John Banville wins the Mann Booker Prize for The Sea (evidently slated for US release in March). If you believe The Guardian, it won by one vote over Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. There seems to be much gossip over a reported rift over […] Seems to be plenty of odds and ends of interest in the book-related world: I had not heard of this award before but the Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage seems pretty interesting. It has been given annually since 2003 as a world prize for “reportage literature.” Past winners are a work on […] I see via The Agony Column that Vintage Books has completed publicatino of all of Philip K. Dick’s SF novels with the release of Dr. Futurity. If you hadn’t heard already, Yahoo has launched the Open Content Alliance in response to Google Print. Both seek to digitize book content. Google Print, however, has been sued […] Some may recall that an evangelist by the name of Luis Palau was featured at the recent LifeLight Festival. Looks like Palau thought it was a good idea. According to The Revealer, he’s got a gathering planned in Washington, DC, this weekend that includes “all-day performances by contemporary Christian musical groups.” Somewhat surprisingly, my review […] My Serenity review noted that I felt there was a strong libertarian theme. I saw via the newsgroups last night that Reason magazine, which many (including myself) would consider a libertarian magazine, takes it a bit further. An column there describes the movie’s themes as “existentialist libertarianism.” (PLEASE NOTE: The Reason article contains serious […] |
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