Weekend Reading: Vendela Vida, Androids, and Pirates

By Jason Boog 

tolstoy23.jpegGalleyCat is signing off for a three-day weekend to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Here is some reading to keep you busy over the weekend…

Edwidge Danticat spoke about the earthquake in Haiti, and we listed ways you can donate to her home country.

When this GalleyCat editor heard Dinosaur Feathers tune entitled “Vendela Vida,” we found out why a tropical/surf/pop band would dedicate a whole song to this novelist who is married to Dave Eggers.

We interviewed a Lost expert about what may be America’s most literary television show. The show’s final season is set to premiere next month.

Author Daniel Alarcón investigated the lucrative world of book piracy in Peru.

Quirk Books announced the next wave of mash-up lit, tackling Leo Tolstoy with “Android Karenina.”