Book Buzz - Winter Qtr. 2006

[DudeAsInCool]

What works is hand-selling, and it begins with ground-troops, and in this case--editorial assistants. Like all creative, underpaid types, editorial assistants are drawn to each other for comfort and warmth. In the midst of all the drinking and canoodling, galleys are passed between friends, and everyone wants to know what is the one book that you are excited about, not the one celebrity bio that will pay the company overhead, but what is the book that reminds you why you work in publishing and justifies all of that time staring into the eye of the Xerox machine?

In that spirit, I'd like to offer up a semi-regular list, a "Buzz Watch" of literary books eagerly anticipated by the publishing hive's worker-bees. (Thank you, Laura Miller, for the suggestion.)

So what are the drones rubbing their legs together about in early 2006? What are they forcing me to add to my "must read" list?

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