The Friday File, 8/20/2010

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Written By Matt Wood

Hand-crafted, artisanal links for your reading pleasure this Friday. For more quick hits during the week, follow us on Twitter.

  • The Common Review has named Danny Postel as its new editor. He was previously Senior Editor of openDemocracy, a staff writer for The Chronicle of Higher Education, and an editor for the Encyclopædia Britannica online magazine.

  • I can't get enough of these "What I Read" features from The Atlantic Wire.

  • Stock up on toothpaste, toilet paper, and e-readers at CVS.

  • The Forbes list of the 10 highest-paid authors. And now I'm off to brush up on vampires, detectives, and rogue CIA agents.

  • eBookNewser sneaks a peek at the most popular highlighted passages from Kindle versions of Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story. The pithier and funnier, the better.

  • NPR takes their turn at the future of books story, and surprise, comes up with a fairly reasonable take.

Have a good weekend, and read something good.

Matt Wood

Matt Wood is a book review editor for TriQuarterly, and a writer and social media specialist for the University of Chicago Medicine. He graduated from the Master of Arts in Creative Writing program at Northwestern University in 2007, where his final thesis, "Through an Unlocked Door," won the Distinguished Thesis Award.

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