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You guessed it, another news roundup. There are blueberries to be picked, people. Sure, laugh all you want. But while you’re chattering away the winter with a scurvvy-ridden mouth and any number of creeping cancers, I’ll be eating museli sprinkled with little blue balls of anti-oxidant goodness until well into May.
- Borders to publish one of its employees’ books — literary world waits breathlessly for bildungsroman featuring disaffected clerk who shoots lasers of derision and condescension from his eyes to smote customers whose tastes fall below the “Irvine Welsh threshold”…
- Kite Runner has long legs in the book club world
- Thai literary thriller gets politicos worked up
- Poet hired to soothe customers on Britain’s worst rail line (I think Thomas and those whacky troublesome trucks are bound to play a naughty trick on this fellow… Like maybe holding his mouth open and pouring lead paint down his throat. Speaking of which, what the hell am I supposed to do with 30 wooden Thomas trains that probably cost me $500? Can I get some money back or what?)
- Adam Gopnik on PKD
- Doris Lessing, interviewed
- Plath’s childhood and crappy teen art, discovered in an attic (leave the dead some dignity, vultures)
- Murakami, profiled in Time
- On the Road — 50 years later it’s still inspiring creative writing students everywhere to hand in their last minute crap
- Which rockers would Canadian publishers most like to get a memoir from?
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August 15th, 2007 at 8:30 am
There is a charge / For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge / For the hearing of my heart—/ It really goes. / And there is a charge, a very large charge / For a word or a touch / Or a bit of blood / Or a piece of my hair or my clothes.
August 15th, 2007 at 9:05 am
It is too early to pick blueberries. Give them more time to get sweet. There are plenty to be had for some weeks yet. Don’t pick partridgeberries until the first frost. Have someone else pick the bakeapples as it is too much work.
August 15th, 2007 at 9:12 am
So says you. I have bags of sweet berries to put the lie to what you say, lad. Lady Ninja does the partridgeberries and marshberries. I am a loyal, one-berry kind of guy.
August 15th, 2007 at 1:24 pm
According to Casey’s pediatrician, the potassium in blueberries are an excellent way to stave off night-time muscular pain in kids. Yet another reason to blow off the ‘puter.