- Naturally, the biggest literary news this week was the announcement of the Pulitzer Prize. Junot Diaz won the Fiction prize for The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. The Nonfiction prize went to Saul Friedlander’s The Years of Extermination.
- Unaccustomed Earth received a front-page (and rather long-winded) review in The New York Times Sunday Book Review section this week. Lahiri’s book is rising on the bestsellers charts (currently #6 on Amazon), easily eclipsing Interpreter of Maladies (according to USA Today, Unaccustomed is already at #10 on its list; Interpreter reached #80). I am next in my library’s queue, and the wait is killing me.
- Fareed Zakaria, my all-time favorite The Daily Show guest (and editor of Newsweek International), reviewed the late Benazir Bhutto’s Reconciliation this week. Even if you don’t read Reconciliation, check out the review. Zakaria is incredibly eloquent. But you’ll have to watch his appearances on The Daily Show to see his humor.
- Britain’s Telegraph featured an article on the “110 Best Books.” I’ve read about 35 and parts of several others. More than anything, this list reminds me how many core books I haven’t read (e.g., War and Peace, Madame Bovary, 1984). Can I really call myself a reader? How many make your list?
- I didn’t read the book, but for fans of Kim Edward’s The Memory Keeper’s Daughter, Lifetime premieres a film adaptation on Saturday.
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Please be sure to DVR The Memory Keeper's Daughter. I was not crazy about the book but am curious about the film adaptation. This was one of the books I read because "everyone" was reading it. I discovered that I must be slightly different from everyone who loved it.
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