Daily Lit Links for 10/1
Why didn't this make the Booker shortlist?
In today’s news, you can learn more about the 2009 Booker shortlist titles as well as study the nearly 3,000 synonyms for “drunk.” There’s also Sarah Palin memoir news that has her book skyrocketing up Amazon’s rankings… you’ll have to keep reading to find out what it is.
- For those of us who haven’t had a chance to read every book on the 2009 Man Booker shortlist, the Guardian has created a cheat sheet of sorts with reviews, videos, interviews, and features on each finalist. With all the dicussion of A.S. Byatt, Hilary Mantel, Sarah Waters, and J.M. Coetzee, it’s nice to see information about the other finalists, Adam Foulds and Simon Mawer. The winner will be announced in less than a week (on October 6th), so place your bets now!
- Have you ever been out drinking and stopped to wonder where the terms “sloshed,” “smashed,” or “blotto” came from? Okay, probably not, but this week a new book is out that’s going to tell you. Paul Dickson’s Drunk: The Definitive Drinkers Dictionary lists 2,964 synonyms for “drunk” and explains their origin. “Blotto” was made famous by P.G. Wodehouse, and, surprisingly, the other 2,963 didn’t all come from Hemingway. Jacket Copy has more about the book and similar works of literature.
- Earlier this week it was announced that Sarah Palin’s memoir Going Rogue: An American Life will be released November 17th, months ahead of its original Spring 2010 pub date. The news has shot the book to #2 on Amazon’s “Top 100″ (it will probably be #1 by the time this blog is posted) and given snarky bloggers plenty of room to comment on the book’s speedy turnaround time (Palin wrote it in 4 months). Speaking of snark, should we be concerned that the 1.5 million-copy print run for Going Rogue equals that of Ted Kennedy’s True Compass?
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