- The Year End issue of Boldtype is available.
- Gilbert Sorrentino won the 2005 Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award. Also, as part of their Reading & Conversations Series, Edwidge Danticat will speak with Junot Diaz on November 30th. The talk will be available on their audio archives the following week.
- Bud Parr of Chekhov’s Mistress has brought us Metaxucafe, a sort of litblog filter or one-stop shopping site if you will. It looks very cool.
- The NYT has announced its Top 10 Best Books of 2005. They are:
- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
- On Beauty by Zadie Smith
- Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld
- Saturday by Ian McEwan
- Veronica by Mary Gaitskill
- The Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq by George Packer
- De Kooning: An American Master by Mark Stevens
- Lost Painting: The Search for a Carvaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr
- Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
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