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« Amis on terror | Main | Dire conditions in Darfur » Tuesday, December 26, 2006What are people writing?For the bibliophiles among us, the (London) Times Literary Supplement updates one page on their site daily-- and, from what I can tell, only one page. The TLS Table provides a list, divided into broad categories like "History" and "Politics," of some of the book that have arrived that day that the offices of the TLS. No annotation, no publication information, no synopsis -- just a list of some books. Nevertheless, the Table can be a fun cross-section of what's cooking in publishing, at least in the UK. I ought to have maintained a similar page when I worked at the New York Review of Books, but the flow was almost too heavy to reach your hand in -- sometimes over a hundred books in a day. It was my job (among other roles) to sort through these titles and separate the wheat from the chaff. While doing so, though, it was interesting to get a wide-gauge look at what people are interested in. A little like those pages that tell you what words people are entering into search engines right now. Posted by Evan Hughes at 11:52 AM
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