- Both The New York Times Sunday Book Review section and USA Today reviewed Jennifer 8. Lee’s book The Fortune Cookie Chronicles: Adventures in the World of Chinese Food. Lee also appeared on The Colbert Report and held her own against Colbert’s witticisms.
- Last week, I mentioned the upcoming movie version of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. On Tuesday, Anthony Minghella, the film’s director, died of surgical complications.
- Not only did Sonya Hartnett receive the Printz Award (Honor Book) this year for her young adult novel Surrender, but she recently received the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award for Literature.
- For comic book and censorship (or rather anti-censorship) lovers, both USA Today and Amazon’s Best Books of March featured David Hadju’s The Ten-Cent Plague.
- The Washington Post and USA Today each carried interviews today with Alison Larkin, author of The English American, a book inspired by her experiences as an American “redneck” baby adopted by British parents.
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