LISNews: Librarian News

Today\'s Chicago Tribune has a brief profile of the writer who won the Nobel Prize for Literature last month.

"A good audience is good. But what is most enervating is when I have little regard for the audience."

Boston.com has an Opinion Piece on Jonathan Franzen and his big hooha with Oprah. They say Franzen thinks he\'s too good for the likes of Oprah and her fans and he has it exactly backward.

There are also stories at The NYTimes The Observer The Nando Times MSNBC Entertainment News FoxNews and Boston.com.

Wow, criticize Oprah and suddenly your a celebrity.

Charles Davis writes \"A memoir by the so-called Fourth Man in the Cambridge
spy ring has reportedly been locked away in the British
Library.
The manuscript by Anthony Blunt, the former Surveyor of the
Queen\'s Pictures who was exposed as a Soviet spy, will not
be released until 2013, according to the Times.
It is said to document his years as a spy and has been
locked away to avoid embarrassing high-profile figures, the
surviving executor of Blunt\'s will told the newspaper.
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Jay passed along A little Friday Funny courtesy of The Naked Novelist.They asked which authors would people would most like to see in the nude, and which would they would least like to see in the nude.
Jeffrey Archer was the author they would least like to see naked, strangely Frank McCourt, the author of Angela\'s Ashes had 821 votes to get naked.
Julie Burchill, author of Naked Ambition, came in First Place, In second place was JK Rowling (Two people suggested that they would like to see her wearing nothing but a wizard\'s hat). David Baddiel, the comedian and author of Time for Bed, was the most voted for man.

Google Images is a good place to see what JK, Julie, and David look like with their clothes on.