Meanwhile, elsewhere....

- Marlon James lists his favourite music of 2007--and resents his prose being described as "lyrical".

- Sharon Millar resolves to read all of Naipaul in 2008, but first she tells us why she loves Oscar Wao. (There's a short story by Junot Díaz in the 24 December, 2007, New Yorker.)

- Tobias Buckell gives an update on his forthcoming novel, Sly Mongoose--it's at the copy-editing stage. (If you can't wait to find out more, check out the video trailer he uploaded last week.)

- Reviews of Caryl Phillips's new novel, Foreigners, are starting to appear all over. Here's one by Donna Bailey Nurse in the Toronto Globe and Mail, another by Michael Fischer in the Miami Herald, a third by Howard Frank Mosher in the Boston Globe.

- And the January/February issue of Caribbean Beat offers a slew of book, film, and music reviews.