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The Brief, Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao Junot Diaz Forget judging a book by its cover, the Diagram Prize looks solely at the title. The prize, first awarded in 1978 as a diversion to the Frankfurt Book Fair, goes to the book with the weirdest title. The Guardian reports that books from the medical field are a favorite among judges. This year the BBC [...] Ursula K. Le Guin was first published in the 1960s, and ever since then, she has been a big name in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy genres, winning various awards, from the Gandalf Grand Master Award to Hugo and Nebula awards. Her novels are known for their explorations of feminist, psychological, and sociological themes – [...] I recently wrote a short list of my favorite African-American authors who grace Twitter for a really cool online zine, Clutch. Longtime readers recall that Uptown Literati used to do a weekly reading list for the site, which will resume next month! I focused on Black authors because they were so woefully ignored by mainstream lists, [...] According to Alexander Vaughn from AppAdvice.com, the rumors that ebook prices will be higher on the iPad that on the Kindle are false. He got to see it first hand at a preview where the top ten New York Times bestsellers were all priced at US $9.99, just like the Kindle versions. This is a [...] Play: The Cherry Orchard Synopsis: Analyzing the New York Time’s reveals a lot of America’s reading trends. March 28th’s New York Times’ Best-Seller list reveals a lot about what’s popular now and what isn’t. The top 15 books on the Hard-Cover Fiction list consists entirely of books that have been ranked for at least one week, with two of them best-sellers [...] Photo: luketwyman Interested in lying out in the sun with a spellbinding fantasy novel? Don’t know where to find the quality ones? Well, lucky for you, Science Fiction and Fantasy World put out their Fantasy Review of 2009! You can now skip past the arduous process of searching through the bookstore, pulling out each and every book [...] |
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