October Redux

Kiran creates hullabaloo in the Booker-Land and there are talks of Arundhati finally working on her next novel. Read reviews here, here and this one by Pankaj Mishra.

Pamuk wins the Big One and India, is the apple of world's eye at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Darwin gets e-booked [ I loved his picture with the lap on his lap] and Monica Ali talks of Malgudi Days.

Also, "Elementary, my dear Watson" is not a Doyle's coinage and writers talk on Writing here[requires subscription].

Wiki may get forked into Citizendium [I hate when people accuse Jimmy Wales of being anti-credentialist]..and I am hooked on to the Amazon Wire.