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In the News: Longtime Loser Wins, Kindle Hits Canada

The winner of this year’s Man Asian Literary Prize says he was “famous for not winning prizes.”

The “Great Unfinished Novel” reminds us of the randomness of art.

The baseball infographic Web site Flip Flop Fly Ball gets a book deal with Bloomsbury.

About time, eh? The Kindle arrives in Canada.

Colum McCann’s “Let the Great World Spin” is the best-selling National Book Award nominee.

The husband-and-wife translating duo Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky tackle Tolstoy’s shorter works.

The year’s top books about books.

George Carlin’s memoir “Last Words” was ten years in the making.

Posted on Nov 18th, 2009 by Ian Crouch in Bloomsbury, Canada, Colum McCann, Flip Flop Fly Ball, George Carlin, In the News, Kindle, Larissa Volokhonsky, Richard Pevear |