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News Thu Aug 27 2009
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- Loving Frank sparks a lively discussion for one of Booklist's Book Group bloggers.
- In a musing over the recent practice of forgoing book jackets for printing cover images directly on books, as McSweeney's has been doing for some time, Chicago native Stephen Elliott's new book, The Adderall Diaries gets a mention. (Would that all publishers made books as beautifully as McSweeney's does.)
- The Literary Saloon provides us with some early reviews of J.M. Coetzee's Summertime.
- A review of Dave Eggers's Zeitoun in the New Yorker and an interview with the author at The Millions.
- Amy Guth takes a look at how L. Frank Baum's classic Oz stories have influenced contemporary literature.
- Listen to Aleksandar Hemon on Chicago Amplified and reading from Love and Obstacles at the Guardian.
- Two more reviews of Dan Chaon's Await Your Reply, one in the LA Times and the other in the New York Times.
- The AV Club reviews Daniel Kraus's The Monster Variations.
- National Book Critics Circle reviews Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition, saying "[Grandson and editor] Sean Hemingway agrees with scholars that decisions made in compiling the original book were questionable. Now he is likely to face a barrage of criticism for creating this alternate version of what has become, despite its possible flaws, a comfortable favorite."
- Jacket Copy wishes Ray Bradbury a happy birthday, apologizing to Illinois for claiming him for LA. Though we'll always feel the opposite - that he belongs to us - we're certainly happy to share him and his wonderful work.