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News Thu Jul 23 2009
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- Jonathan Messinger of Time Out Chicago comments on the previews for The Time Traveler's Wife and sounds hopeful about Niffenegger's upcoming book, Her Fearful Symmetry.
- Book Beast celebrates Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides turning sweet sixteen.
- Jacket Copy celebrates what would be Ernest Hemingway's 110th birthday.
- Elsewhere in Hemingway news, Pop Matters contemplates the changes in the restored edition of A Moveable Feast.
- Time talks to Dave Eggers about Abdulrahman Zeitoun, the inspriration for his new book.
- Elsewhere in Eggers news, the A.V. Club gives Zeitoun a mild review, calling Eggers's work "extremely [careful]" and "almost self-consciously plain".
- Some unpublished Kurt Vonnegut works will soon see the light of day in e-book format.
- Elsewhere in Vonnegut news, how about relaxing with some nice music, such as the likes of the Ice-9 Ballads? [via]
- The Newberry Library may be pretty sure they don't have a book bound in human skin, but other libraries apparently do.
- Jeffrey Deavers lists Philip K. Dick's A Maze of Death and Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano on his Top Ten Novels Featuring the Internet or Computers.
- Julia Keller of the Tribune contemplates Great Chicago Novels and nominates Elizabeth Berg's Home Safe for addition to the canon.
