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Daily Lit Links for 8/26

BNA_Daily | August 26, 2009

If you think you are a superstar vacation reader, wait until you see President Obama’s ambitious reading list for his week-long holiday.  We also have a glimpse into Thomas Pynchon’s reclusive ways  and a book about chimps.  Enjoy!

Obama is reading in Cape Cod, and you know what that means - a spike in book sales!  [...]

Critical Consensus for 8/25: Thoms Pynchon’s Inherent Vice

BNA_Daily | August 24, 2009

If you haven’t read Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice yet, you should, if only to make sense of that neon cover that keeps popping up everywhere.  It seems that every newspaper in the country is reviewing the book and trying to determine if this commercial book lives up to Pynchon’s literary legacy.  Inherent Vice is a [...]