And if the world changed forever on September the Eleventh, can a book on it be far behind? HarperCollins is already busy with a book that will be out by October. An oral history of the worst day in New York is also going to press.
Even the Booker shortlist, the most happening book event in the world, nearly got lost in the wtc smoke. The only Indian who made it to the long list this year, Manil Suri, is out of the race for Britain's greatest literary prize of 21,000 pounds. So is Beryl Bainbridge, described by Guardian as "the eternal Booker prize bridesmaid". The unusually English shortlist includes Atonemeny by Ian McEwan, Oxygen by Andrew Miller, The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert, number9dream by David Mitchell, Hotel World by Ali Smith and True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey (Australian).
