Lit year in review.(Gao Xingjian)(Brief article)

Chinese writer Gao Xingjian wins the Nobel Prize in Literature "for an oeuvre of universal validity, bitter insights and linguistic ingenuity, which has opened new paths for the Chinese novel and drama." ... Stephen King's Riding the Bullet, the world's first mass-market electronic book, attracts more than 400,000 download orders in its first day ... the Oxford English Dictionary …