Making lists
Lists, we like lists:
After last week’s decision in New York, Byliner presents a list of readings on “Marriage in America” that come in many sizes and colors.
Largehearted boy, a website I check regularly, has compiled summer reading lists from all around and on all kinds of topics. I like the list from Wired’s Underwire blog, called “10 books that will fry your mind this summer.”
Flavorpill reminds us that the science fiction field “has widened in the past thirty years or so to be more inclusive” of mold-breaking authors. You may find authors you were missing out on in their gallery of “10 Diverse Sci-Fi Authors You Should Know.”
Sundry news:
JK Rowling’s Pottermore website, to launch in October, has drawn speculation and buzz. We’ve now learned that the site will be the only vehicle for the sales of e-book versions of the Harry Potter series. Bookselllers that have made fan spectacles out of Rowling’s book releases are dismayed to be excluded from the e-book market.
The Financial Times runs a piece by Jan Dalley in which she visits with Philip Roth, who will be awarded the Man Booker International prize tomorrow, for his body of work over half a century. The article has been quoted across the Twitterverse as saying Roth admits he doesn’t read fiction, but a closer read of the text suggests more complexity on his attitude toward his craft and even being interviewed.
Jose Antonio Vargas shared his undocumented immigrant status with student newspaper reporters at Mountain View High School, where he got his own start as a journalist, six weeks before releasing his story to national media. The students apparently kept his secret. They state the revelation seemed unplanned and that it made them feel bonded with Vargas.
