Bookmarks: Orwell blogs, Chabon wins big, China’s publishing industry goes quiet
Some book-related links:
- Orwell, the blogger (Time)
- Hugo Awards awarded – Chabon wins the big one (The Hugo Awards)
- China’s publishing industry shuts down during Olympics (The New York Times)
- A pair of Canadians (including Q&Q contributor Ian Daffern) have online comic in contention in DC Comics contest (Shock Effect blog)
- Jerusalem’s Russian Library (Jerusalem Post)
- Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies (Reuters)
- Canongate publisher Jamie Byng blasts Bookers for not picking Canongate book (The Age)
- Muslim scholar’s novel angers Egyptian Christians (GulfNews.com)
- A guide to all those semi-fictional addiction memoirs (CBC.ca)
- Library overdue fees go to help flood victims (IndyStar.com)
