The New Yorker has chosen its “20 Under 40” list of fiction writers worth watching, a group assembled by the magazine’s editors in a lengthy, secretive process that has provoked considerable anxiety among young literary types
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/books/03under.html
In our last meeting for 2010, our bookclub members voted for the best book from the 2010 Reading List and the winner is:
The Tree of Man by Patrick White (Go Patrick!)
Words of wisdom (or literature only for the white and wealthy?) Worth reading.
http://htmlgiant.com/random/a-profound-sense-of-absence/
Howard Jacobson richly deserved his Booker prize, but so many other novels divided cultured opinion
By Katy Guest
At the back of Douglas Coupland’s latest novel, Player One, there is a glossary of made-up modern vocabulary which doesn’t, but easily could, include the term “The Coupland Perception Incomprehensibility Paradox”: the increasingly frustrating realisation that well-read people whom one cares about and respects quite frequently nurture opinions about literature which are inexplicably contrary to one’s own.
Gold Coast Book Lovers 