Let the Great World Spin: Free
Photo: Courtesy of Random House
As long as you don't mind telling Oprah your e-mail address, she's giving away Colum McCann's Let the Great World Spin on her website for free during the next 48 hours. Jonathan Mahler called it "one of the most electric, profound novels I have read in years" in yesterday's "Sunday Book Review," so maybe it'll still be okay in PDF format. [Oprah] Earlier: Novelist Colum McCann on Let the Great World Spin and the 9/11 ‘Grief Machine’

Eight Year-End Films Vie for Oscar Contention
Sondheim and Lansbury on a Lifetime in Theater
The Black Keys Release Their Hip-hop Debut
How the BQE Became an Artistic Muse