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Weekly links: Jezebel poses questions for your book club; Exupery revelations; ‘Shades of Grey’ trilogy breaks 10 mill in sales & more

Running short of discussion topics at your book club meetings? Julieanne Smolinski, whose Fifty Shades of Grey takedown tickled my funnybone a few weeks back, has 15 hilarious ideas over at Jezebel. A few highlights: 4. This book has sold several million … Continue reading

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Malcolm Gladwell on power in 2013 book

Malcolm Gladwell, writer for the New Yorker and author of bestsellers The Tipping Point, Blink and Outliers, will release a new book from Little, Brown in 2013. Its topic? Power. In an interview with The Globe and Mail, Gladwell was … Continue reading

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Nell Freudenberger’s international love story

Here’s yet another novel to get excited about for 2012: Nell Freudenberger’s The Newlyweds will be published by Knopf on May 1.  Freudenberger, who hit the literary scene in a big way with her short story collection, Lucky Girls, hasn’t published … Continue reading

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The New Yorker’s top writers under 40

Yesterday the New Yorker announced its top 20 writers under 40, who will be featured in the June 14 & June 21 fiction issue. This is the first time the publication has made such a list since 1999—a list that … Continue reading

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More details on Franzen’s latest

It’s a pretty safe bet that anyone who finishes Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections will 1.) immediately urge someone else to read it and 2.) immediately ask where Franzen’s next novel is. There’s been no satisfactory answer to that question for … Continue reading

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Elizabeth Kolbert's 'The Sixth Extinction'

New Yorker writer Elizabeth Kolbert has written a book based on a series of New Yorker articles—and last week, Holt won the rights to publish The Sixth Extinction in a big auction (source). Most scientists agree that there have been … Continue reading

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Controversy courts Ian McEwan

Over the past year, novelist Ian McEwan (Atonement, Enduring Love) has dropped several tantalizing tidbits about his work-in-progress, an 11th novel—his first since 2007′s On Chesil Beach. It’s about global warming. It features a physicist whom McEwan has described as … Continue reading

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