Meanderings through the literary world

And we start off with a rather bizarre profile of Walter Mosley in the Telegraph, which spends an inordinate amount of time on the fact that he writes his books in the nude, even going so far as to report on an exchange he has with his assistant about it. Uh, TMI?

The Guardian has more on Andrea Levy’s upset Orange Prize win, and the fact that the bookies were stunned by the result, although they never mind an upset on occasion, really. Then there’s Katherine Viner, one of the Prize judges, who talks about the stress of sifting through all sorts of worthy names to come up with an eventual winner.

Oh goody–another book about the Quarterlife Crisis that allegedly dogs those around my age. Except, according to the Scotsman, this book actually makes a fair case for it, which, considering I described myself as a “neurotic workaholic” on another blog, I’m inclined to agree with in some part….

This article in the Boston Globe on the dynamic duos of bestesellerdom brings to mind a couple of commercials from my youth (“Doublemint!” “Two, two, two hits in one!”) but it just goes to show that once a trend gets started, all sorts of folks are snapped up to perpetuate it.

Another “BEA That Was” report, courtesy of the Madison (WI) Capital Times. Find out why someone was walking around with a toilet seat on his head, and why we should be terrified of Bill O’Reilly’s next offering. Also, Rachel Donadio of the New York Observer offers up a highly detailed roundup as well.

And finally, what did Jhumpa Lahiri do last weekend? Only attend her College Reunion weekend at Barnard College and accept the Young Alumna Award. She was extremely pleased and told the crowd that “Barnard was the ideal place to learn to accomplish what is possible, while remaining aware of, and perhaps even aspiring toward, the seemingly impossible. What I took away from Barnard wasn’t so much what I ought to do with my life, but how I ought to approach it.”