Flotsam and Jetsam

Check out some of the good stuff floating around:

A bookstore on a boat at The CS Monitor
Similarties between David Mitchell’s Number9Dream and Cloud Atlas at Conversational Reading.
Tingle Alley discovers that Zadie Smith’s hubby Nick Laird may be getting preferential treatment in the book pages.
Aelfred of Dunwoody Recalls a Viking Incursion at Wal-Mart, 848 AD. You can’t really beat this.

C. Max Magee created The Millions and is its publisher. He and his family live in New Jersey.