In the News: Rhetorical Exercise, Bond on the Block

A newspaper in Wasilla, Alaska, reports that the town’s library director, Mary Ellen Emmons, was asked by Governor Sarah Palin “if she could live with censorship of library books.” The paper goes on to say, “Palin later dismissed the conversation as a ‘rhetorical’ exercise.”

“Me Cheeta,” the autobiography of a Chimpanzee, is in the running for the Guardian First Book Award.

A collection of first-edition James Bond novels that belonged to Sir Fitzroy Maclean, a diplomat and soldier believed to have been the inpiration for 007, is up for auction.

Google unveils their new Web browser, Google Chrome, through a comic book drawn by Scott McCloud.

The fifteen-year-old Lebanese author of “Les Elus et les Pierres Stellaires” may be the youngest Arab novelist ever published in French.

Harry Potter, a latter-day John Galt.
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