Twenty Writers Under Forty

Getting information for this blog has become so much easier for me lately because there is just so much news about books and writers these days. The problem now is that I can hardly keep up.


Read this article in the New York Times online about twenty young gifted fiction writers from all over the world. I am familiar with only one; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie age 32.

Heard it on the Grapevine

Here is a new book with the unusual title, Cutting for Stone, based in Ethiopia and covering the period when His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie was in power. I heard about it on the grapevine. A friend of my Aunt recommended it to her. Although she has not read it, my Aunt was recommending it to me and I am now recommending it to you based on the reviews in amazon. The author is Ethiopian Indian Abraham Verghese.