woo hoo!
Congratulations to Richard Powers, who may be my favorite living novelist. Powers has been writing big, brilliant books for a long time, and his newest, The Echomaker, has just deservedly won the National Book Award. Hooray! (Powers' Prisoner's Dilemma and The Goldbug Variations, in particular, made me want to be a writer. All of his books are excellent, though.)
God, I'm so happy for Richard Powers. You could make a case for Powers winning a Nobel Prize now, even though he's only 49. So many of his books have been overlooked, so this is really great.
I'm also very happy for M. T. Anderson, who won the NBA this year for best book for children. Richly deserved, for sure. Congratulations to all the finalists, too.
posted by John Green @ Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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Congratulations, of course, to Richard Powers, but I'm not writing about that. This is a continued response to your call for us to blog for you while you finish you draft.
First, I have to say that my wife and I just sat down and read the new Mental_Floss magazine cover to cover and can't help but notice that every time we read it, more of it is written by people you know. This issues wonderful review of Hitchcock's Psycho was done by Randy Riggs who, as I remember it, was a groomsman at your wedding.
Another strange coincidence: one of the people who you don't know actually lives in my very small town in Montana. I should probably hang out with her because I'm currently writing a couple of things for Mental_floss, continuing the streak of 'people who are closely related to john green' writing for M_F Magazine
But that's not the real reason I wanted to comment today either. I just was looking at the amazon.com page for An Abundance of Katherines and was laughing at the "Statistically Improbably Phrases" (tampon strings, feral hog, pink mansion, and pupilary sphincter.) when I randomly clicked on Taco Hell which is marked as an important phrase because it is capitalized (along with Big Daddy and Monster Thickburger.) What I discovered was that the only other book that had the phrase "taco hell" in it more often than 'Katherines' was 'Nevernever' by Will Shetterly, which is my absolute favorite (but also completely out of print and never very popular) YA book of all time.
That is just, I mean, really strange.
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