The NBAs have been announced. With the added coverage, expect fresh indignation at the medal Stephen King is getting. Actually, check out Moby’s letters section for an ongoing series of rants on that very subject. Here’s a brief overview of the nominees’ works.
He could ski backwards, navigate a midget submarine, and undertake the riskiest parachute jumps.
But that’s pretty much all that Retired Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander Patrick Dalzel-Job, the inspiration for Ian Fleming’s character, had in common with James Bond. Dalzel-Job died yesterday in Scotland.
“Images from Anne Geddes and songs from Celine Dion combine in MIRACLE, commemorating the bond of love that exists between a mother and her baby, to Andrews McMeel, for publication in October 2004. ”
From Publishers’ Lunch.
El Commandante en Jefe writes about his friendship with Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s (whom he calls Gabo) and about the new Marquez autobiography.
You can read the Missouri Review‘s rejection of George W. Bush’s poem here.
Link via Bookslut.
A quickie feature on Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler’s tenth book, The Slippery Slope.