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What We Are Reading: Prose In Different Area Codes

PROSE: Salman Rushdie brings heavy guns against George Orwell and Hol­ly­wood in Out­side the Whale. Chris Abani’s book is pulled off Florida’s sum­mer read­ing list because of racy con­tent. Read excerpts from Mark Twain’s auto­bi­og­ra­phy, as well as Abdul Adan’s review of African Roar. Then Binya­vanga Wain­naina writes a sequel to his famous viral piece, “How To Write About

Obama’s face of Africa that is too often overlooked.

The mes­sage, In 1985, around 85,000 peo­ple vis­ited the trop­i­cal coun­try; that num­ber has now sky­rock­eted to around 600,000. In June of this year, the Ghana Tourist Board launched a pro­mo­tional ini­tia­tive with the aim of attract­ing 1 mil­lion annual vis­i­tors by the end of 2012.