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Booker Shortlist 2010

The shortlist for the UK's Man Booker Prize was announced this morning. The authors and books are

Peter Carey Parrot and Olivier in America (Faber and Faber)

Emma Donoghue Room (Picador - Pan Macmillan)

Damon Galgut In a Strange Room (Atlantic Books - Grove Atlantic)

Howard Jacobson The Finkler Question (Bloomsbury)

Andrea Levy The Long Song (Headline Review - Headline Publishing Group)

Tom McCarthy C (Jonathan Cape - Random House)

The winner, revealed on October 12th, receives £50,000. Not bad, eh?

One Fish, Two Fish Sneakers?

Heck, yeah. Look at this Zappos page of the Dr. Seuss line of Converse sneakers. I love 'em, especially the infant/toddler "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" shoes and this pair for adults. Maybe a better Seussian than I can figure out where the illustrations are from on the second ones.

Props to the new blog It's Always an Adventure, where I first read about the sneaks.