More book award news. PEN USA has announced its 2006 Literary Award winners. (Via GalleyCat.) I have not heard of any of the book winners, which include Percival Everett’s Wounded for fiction, Michael Chorost’s Rebuilt: How Becoming Part Computer Made Me More Human for “creative nonfiction” and Adam Hochschild’s Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels […]
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Joy: Stampede hockey begins! Sadness: Joss Whedon announces the Firefly universe is at an end. (Via Big Dumb Object.) Wonder: Hello from Mars. (Via Kottke.org Remaindered Links.) Misery: Which is worse, the condition or the cure? Pleasure: Being interviewed by NPR’s Nina Totenberg (along with PP) about J.A.I.L. (and waiting until the end to tell […] No wonder my TBR pile and wish lists keep growing and growing. John Scalzi is auctioning a bound copy of the manuscript of his novel, The Last Colony, slated for release in May 2007. Proceeds will go to a book endowment fund at the Minneapolis Public Library and the higher the bid, the more additional […] Just a note that posting will be sporadic at best in the near future. Various commitments will leave me with uncertain and likely limited internet access, leading to this collection of miscellaneous linkage from the past week: Plenty of buzz in the blogosphere regarding the groping incident at the Hugo Awards ceremony last weekend. Meme […] So this happens probably a mile and a half from my home and we didn’t hear, see or smell a thing until trying to drive to work. The same isn’t true for my next door neighbor, who’s in management for the pipeline company, and got a call just after 2:30 a.m. telling him “your facility […] |
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