Links a-go-go

I’m not sure how I managed to miss this in yesterday’s roundup–bad me–but the lovely Maud has spread her reviewing wings to Newsday, where she looks at Turkish author Elif Sharak’s first foray into writing in English.

If you’re sick of THE DA VINCI CODE, you’re out of luck–the handsome, oversized illustrated edition is now available (for almost 50 bucks in Canada!) and as Judy Stoffman of the Toronto Star reports, people are coming back for more thanks to Doubleday’s lengthy, smart marketing campaign.

Nadine Gordimer has recruited an impressive stable of writers to help in her new campaign to stop the spread of AIDS.

Marta Salij, the books editor of the Freep, rounds up the best fiction of the year, going for distinctly serious and weighty tomes.

Patrick Anderson reviews Nelson DeMille’s new book and enjoys the page-turning aspects, but is less enamored with the main character (whom he dubs “obnoxious”) and the writing style.

Tom Wolfe, digested (actually, more like gobbled up) by the Guardian. But then I’d rather read 400 words than 676 pages…

Charlotte Mendelsohn, an editor with Headline Review, has won the Llewellyn Rhys Prize for fiction.  Booktrust, which owns the prize, is still looking for a sponsor to help give out the 25, 000 pounds awarded to the winning writer.

And finally, though everyone’s linking to it (I got it from Moorish Girl) The case of the identical twin paternity issue fascinates the hell out of me. The only way I could see them proving paternity is to go a step beyond DNA into gene and/or protein expression. Will they do it? Nah…