My Faves for Sunday, March 23, 2008

Michael’s Chabon’s “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” has become the first book ever to be nominated for the Nebula, Edgar, and the Hugo awards.

I love how the only full sized statue of Dickens was made by the Americans as a present to the British, and that that present had to be sent back to to respect Dickens’s wishes.

Quoted: Seeking an appropriate means of marking the 200th anniversary of his birth, several of Dickens’ descendants have come out in support of a commemorative statue at Eastgate House, Rochester, Kent, a building that appears in many of his novels, including The Pickwick Papers.