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News Fri Sep 25 2009
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- The reviews of the Chicago issue of Granta are coming in and the Guardian wonders if the city no longer produces or needs writers like Saul Bellow.
- Granta's answers is, apparently, yes, as they direct us to a piece - "Memoirs of a Bootlegger's Son" - by Bellow published in issue 41 of the magazine.
- Meanwhile, Rick Kogan questions why only three women writers were included in the issue. (A good question. I have to admit that I didn't even notice the lack of women.)
- And the Minneapolis Star-Tribune is scratching their heads wondering why in the world Granta chose us.
- Elsewhere, Aleksandar Hemon is interviewed at Deutsche Welle and talks about Sarajevo, nationality, the Diaspora and his writing. [via]
- Both Sarah Weinman and Julia Keller review Sara Paretsky's new V.I. Warshawski novel, Hardball. The New York Times also gets in on the action with a favorable review.
- The Millions reports that Mariel Hemingway will produce a film adaptation grandfather Ernest Hemingway's memoir, A Moveable Feast.
- The Guardian got their hands on an advanced copy of Twitterature, the "twitfic" book by two U of C undergrads. Of course, the two have also started their own Twitter page.
- Mark Athitakis praises Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers, writing that in this one Powers brings the funny.
- The Reader digs into the story behind the recently published Blueprint for Disaster, D. Bradford Hunt's study of the Chicago Housing Authority.