Bookish: WEEKEND CLIPS (5#) -

Femmes Noir, Pynchon
Picaresque & Obscure Faves . . .

Alan Kelly has a roundtable discussion with three gals who write Noir Mystery Fiction: Cathi Unsworth, Megan Abbot and Christa Faust.

# New details about the
Thomas Pynchon novel expected in '09:

"The title will be Inherent Vice, and it
deals with a private eye in '60s Los Angeles."

# Writers pick their favorite obscure books. [via]

# "Like other industries caught in the economic downturn, publishing is being forced to take a hard look at how it does business." [NPR]

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