"Irreparable harm as a writer"

Apparently JK Rowling won the case against the Potter Lexicon, as fair use was not established by the editor. Yeah - but "irreparable harm [to her] as a writer"?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/sep/08/harrypotter.usa

Torchwood Heads Up

To tie in with the end of the world the CERN thing, there's a radio play of Torchwood on BBC Radio 4, Wednesday 2.15 and no doubt on listen again. (lissen, no no, no... lissen, lissen agen...)

The Slush Pile

A rather depressing piece from G2. And it appears some agents don't accept unsolicited Mss these days. H'mmm.

Reading XLIII and XLVI

Two follow-ups to John Connolly's Every Dead Thing (see here). There is distinctly a pattern emerging - employed on case he doesn't want to take on, people associated with the case are murdered, he calls on Angel and Louis, the police warn him off, he is confronted by one or more of the villains, he is forced to tell the police almost everything, one of his group is kidnapped...

( XLIII: John Connolly, Dark Hollow (2000) )

( XLVI: John Connolly, The Killing Kind (2001) )

Booker Shortlist

Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger
Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture
Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies
Linda Grant, The Clothes on Their Backs
Philip Hensher, The Northern Clemency
Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole

Good to see Ghosh on the list.

Film CV

CV: Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophüls, 1948)

One of the Top 100.

She's called ( SPOILER! )

Totals: 105 (Cinema: 41; DVD: 59; TV: 5)