*Children's book author Anne Fine was recognized for her "written clarity and sense of nuance" by Britain's National Academy of Writing. Her prize? A pen.
*Jacket Copy has a rather sweet little piece on an easily dismissed literary tradition - baby books. Apparently, UCLA's Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library has amassed more than 1,100 of them.
*Twihards everywhere cried themselves to sleep this week after Stephenie Meyer confessed she is "really burned out on vampires."
*In other Twilight-confession news, a Harvard humanities professor has written an article for The London Times explaining why she can't get enough of the fangy phenomenon. She'll be teaching a class called The Vampire in Literature and Film for like-minded students this autumn.(A brief aside: Reading the article I was bewildered to learn there's a Twilight cookbook
- doesn't that seem a trifle unnecessary? Since vampires don't exactly eat?)*GalleyCat unveiled "the world's longest literary remix" this week. Readers rewrote a page of Horatio Alger's Joe's Luck: Always Wide Awake, and the blog created a free eBook edition of the remixed result in two versions - the abridged version, which reads like a complete novel with author attribution at the end, and the unabridged version, which recognizes each author's individual contribution page by page.
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Thanks for sharing the Horatio Alger remix. It was a lot of fun and we'll be doing it again...
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