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Thursday Apr 10, 2008

Six Unboring Lit Links: Winners, Losers, Gossip Girls, And Memoir Lies

Jonathan Lethem's next novel is set on the Upper East Side, where Serena Van der Woodsen and Blair Waldorf also live. [Vulture]

These kids today might think they invented the less than truthful memoir genre, but Zora Neale Hurston pioneered it. (She had her reasons). [NYT]

Attention, geeks: you can win a weekend in London with that fancy handwritten J.K. Rowling fairy tale book. Yes, a whole weekend! With a book![Omnivoracious]

Boris Kachka disapproves of comparing the book you're reviewing to other books you admit you haven't read. [Vulture]

Kate Christensen on winning the PEN/Faulkner award for 'The Great Man': "I'll probably never lose my innate sense of being an outsider, but it sure is nice to win a prize."[Critical Mass]

Jhumpa Lahiri's short-story collection debuts at #1 on the 'Times' bestseller list, maybe postponing another handful of 'death of reading' trend pieces. [Paper Cuts]

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