NEA's Big Read

As reported in PW yesterday, the NEA just announced the next round of Big Read grants and will be giving $2.8 million to 208 libraries and other organizations across the country to put together Big Read events in their community. (Including Writers & Books here in Rochester.)

There are now 23 titles eligible for selection, but what’s really interesting to me is the launch of “Big Read Mexico,” which will focus on Sun, Stone, and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories. This anthology (which I mentioned in one of the BEA posts) is quite impressive, and will be available in the near future from Fondo de Cultura Economica. It will be sold throughout the U.S. for a very reasonable $10.

After 2666 and after Horacio Moya’s Senselessness, I plan on reading and reviewing this myself . . . But with all that’s going on, it just might be August by that time . . .