Today in brief: World's smallest library? , the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator, McCarthy bids his Olivetti farewell and the Guardian Christmas books for 2009
Guardian books asks some of this year's most high-profile writers, a number of whom we hope to see at the Wheeler Centre next year, to pick their favourite books of 2009.
The New York Times reports today that Cormac McCarthy has decided to auction off his Olivetti Lettera 32 and donate the proceeds to the Santa Fe Institute, having written novels, plays, letters and screenplays on it since buying it from a pawnshop in a Knoxville, Tennessee for $50 in 1963.
McCarthy is not the only well-known writer with a fondness for the Olivetti. Gunter Grass talks of his deep attachment to the classic typewriter in his controversial memoir Peeling the Onion.
CERN's Large Hadron Collider, the world’s highest-energy particle accelerator
Residents of Somerset, in England, can now borrow books from what must be one of the world's smallest lending libraires.
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