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Mark's Contemporary Literature Blog May 2005 Archive

By Mark Flanagan, About.com Guide to Contemporary Literature since 2003

Summer Reading

Monday May 30, 2005
Summer is here! Summer is here! Well, not officially, but the Books of Summer are here and coming soon - a pile of hot titles, among them the latest from ... Read More

Harry Potter and the Internet Gambling Affair

Thursday May 26, 2005
With Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince due out in July, fans are betting on which of the key characters dies in the novel - literally betting. According to ... Read More

Kevin Smokler's Virtual Book Tour

Wednesday May 25, 2005
Kevin Smokler is the editor of Bookmark Now, "a collection of essays by writers in their 20s and 30s asserting and celebrating the continued relevance and sexiness of reading and ... Read More

NASCAR Lit

Monday May 23, 2005
From Sharyn McCrumb, comes a vibrant, wholly original novel of love, faith, and miracles, as only she can tell it. A NASCAR trip called the Dale Earnhardt Memorial Pilgrimage — ... Read More

Asne Seierstad's Baghdad Journal

Tuesday May 17, 2005
Asne Seierstad worked as a reporter in Baghdad for Scandinavian, German, and Dutch media-from January until April 2003. She reported on the events in Iraq before, during, and after the ... Read More

The Confessions of Max Tivoli

Thursday May 12, 2005
We are each the love of someone's life.So begins The Confessions of Max Tivoli, a heartbreaking love story with a narrator like no other. At his birth, Max's father declares ... Read More

Rosa by Jonathan Rabb

Tuesday May 10, 2005
"In the last days of the First World War, socialist revolution swept across Germany, sending Kaiser Wilhelm into exile and transforming Berlin into a battleground. But for Detective Inspector Nikolai ... Read More

A Year in the Merde

Thursday May 5, 2005
A Year In The Merde is the almost-true account of Stephen Clarke's adventures as an expat in Paris. Based loosely on his own experiences and with names changed to avoid ... Read More

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

Tuesday May 3, 2005
Haunted is a novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them, to be precise. Twenty-three of the most horrifying, hilarious, mind-blowing, stomach-churning tales you'll ever encounter—sometimes all at once. ... Read More

Don't Panic: Douglas Adams and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Sunday May 1, 2005
As expected, the release of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie has created a resurgence of interest in Douglas Adams' five-book trilogy, and most specifically the eponymous first book, ... Read More

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