So it goes
Kurt Vonnegut died on 11th April at the age of 84. Coverage, as expected, in several media outlets including New York Times (1), New York Times (2), Forbes, LA Times, Salon and others. Watch a 8-part documentary on Vonnegut and his work, compiled by SF Signal. kimbofo notices that soon after the news of the death was announced, Vonnegut's books climbed to the "Movers and Shakers" list at Amazon.
On this occassion, some relavant links from the past - The Paris Review interview with Kurt Vonnegut, John Updike on Vonnegut and an extract of A Man Without a Country from Guardian.
My last words? "Life is no way to treat an animal, not even a mouse."
Dan Rhodes, the author of "Anthropology" and "Timoleon Vieta Come Home" picks his list of top 10 short books. The top book is "The Sorrows of Young Werther" by Goethe. 125 British and American writers were asked to "provide a list, ranked, in order, of what you consider the ten greatest works of fiction of all time." Washington Post published the top 10 in the list. In another "top-X list", Waterstone polled 5,000 employees for their favourite five books written since 1982 and the top-100 list is out.
The Judges’ List of Contenders for the second Man Booker International Prize has been announced. Philip Roth, Salman Rushdie, Margaret Atwood and 13 others have made it to the list. BBC Four Samuel Johnson Longlist for 2007 has also been announced.
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