Literary Links: Unpleasant realities edition
Uh oh. Thirteen people in Turkey were arrested for
plotting to kill Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk (
My Name is Red).
What a surprise! Oprah's latest Book Club pick is
Eckhart Tolle's self-help tome
A New Earth. Congratulations, Eckhart -- please enjoy being the spiritual teacher for this entire nation.
Just...ew. From
Publisher's Lunch Weekly: Bestselling authors Rory
Freedman and Kim Barnouin's
SKINNY BITCH JOURNAL, for publication in early 2009,
and a book adapting the Skinny Bitch message for guys, for publication in fall
2009, again to Jennifer Kasius at Running Press, by Talia Cohen of Laura Dail
Literary Agency (world).
