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Mark's Contemporary Literature Blog August 2007 Archive

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

Cormac McCarthy's The Road wins Scottish Literary Prize

Wednesday August 29, 2007
This year's James Tait Black Memorial Prize for literature went to Cormac McCarthy for The Road, McCarthy's vision of a post-apocalyptic father-son journey across America. The James Tait Black Memorial ... Read More

Peony in Love by Lisa See

Sunday August 26, 2007
Writing an historical novel is easy. Pick a time, setting, and characters. Be sure that characters are realistic and they act according to their milieu, never inconsistent in dress, action, ... Read More

Reading in America - AP Poll

Thursday August 23, 2007
This week the Associated Press, in a poll about reading in America, reported that "one in four adults read no books at all in the past year." Evidently the typical ... Read More

What is the What by Dave Eggers

Saturday August 18, 2007
Dave Eggers illuminates the history of the civil war in Sudan through the eyes of Valentino Achak Deng, a refugee now living in the United States. We follow his life ... Read More

Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician by Daniel Wallace

Thursday August 16, 2007
From the author of Big Fish comes this haunting, tender story that weaves a tragic secret, a mysterious meeting with the Devil, and a family of charming circus freaks recounting ... Read More

The Man Booker Dozen

Monday August 13, 2007
The Man Booker Prize is awarded to the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. It is not only ... Read More

Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis

Wednesday August 8, 2007
A burned–out private detective is enlisted by an army of presidential goons to retrieve the U.S. Constitution...the real one. Following in the steps of Neil Gaiman, Crooked Little Vein is ... Read More

Greening the Bookshelves

Monday August 6, 2007
Did you know that 20 million trees are cut down annually for the virgin paper to produce books sold in the United States alone? The mission of Eco-Libris is to offset ... Read More

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