About Contemporary LiteratureGet the latest headlines from the About.com Contemporary Literature GuideSite.Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Books Poll- June 20, 2008 Entertainment Weekly polled its readers to get this list of the ten best books of the past 25 years: The Road by Cormac McCarthy Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by...http://contemporarylit.about.com/b/a/256592.htm When You Are Engulfed in Flames by David Sedaris- June 17, 2008 David Sedaris can be and has been side-splittingly funny. He is, without a doubt, one of my most favorite writers ever, and I like nothing better than happening upon...http://contemporarylit.about.com/b/a/256591.htm William Gibson's Playlist on Paper Cuts- June 16, 2008 From the NYTBR Paper Cuts blog, William Gibson's playlist of ten tracks in no particular order in which the author most recently of Spook Country likens The Drive-By Truckers' "Decoration...http://contemporarylit.about.com/b/a/256590.htm Merde Happens by Stephen Clarke- June 12, 2008 From Stephen Clarke, author of A Year in the Merde and In the Merde for Love, Merde Happens is the third installation of Paul West's hilarious mis-adventures in merde. This...http://contemporarylit.about.com/b/a/256589.htm A Wolf at the Table by Augusten Burroughs- June 10, 2008 In A Wolf at the Table, Augusten Burroughs returns to the story of his dysfunctional family, a subject that he mastered in his bestseller, Running with Scissors (2003). If the...http://contemporarylit.about.com/b/a/256588.htm The Long March by Sun Shuyun- June 3, 2008 The Long March is Communist Chinas founding myth, the heroic tale that every Chinese child learns in school. Seventy years after the historical march took place, Sun Shuyun set out...http://contemporarylit.about.com/b/a/256584.htm |