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Bookmarks: the best book title of the year, Kim Echlin’s favourite tunes, and more

Sundry links from around the Web:

  • The Los Angeles Times calls Judy Wearing’s Edison’s Concrete Piano: Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors (published this month by ECW Press) the best book title of the year
  • Former Giller contender Kim Echlin gives The New York Times a playlist to accompany The Disappeared
  • Newfoundland author Chad Pelley launches Salty Ink, a website devoted to Atlantic Canadian writing
  • The BBC is planning to adapt Martin Amis’s novel Money for TV, and the broadcaster has already decided on a male lead
  • The Australian government has rejected a proposal that would have allowed parallel importation of foreign books, MobyLives reports
  • Blogger Mark Bertils points to something on every designer and book lover’s Christmas wish list: a wall calendar that displays a different type face for every month
  • http://www.saltyink.com Salty Ink

    Speaking of book playlists … Chad Pelley has permission to distribute 100 copies an actual CD soundtrack, and plans to partner up with an independent Toronto book store very shortly to do so. See the tracklisting here: http://chadpelley.wordpress.com/awayfromeverywhere/away-from-everywhere-an-unofficial-soundtrack-to-a-novel-by-chad-pelley/

  • http://www.saltyink.com Salty Ink

    … the songs accompany the novel, Away from Everywhere, and and the tracklist comes with an explanation as to why each track made list. Many of the bands on the soundtrack were subtly mentioned in the novel.

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