- “Dibs on Darcy… You can have Wickham!“
- SNOOTs slander Strunk & White.
- New York Magazine offers an exhaustive – nigh unto Talesian – look at the marriage of Gay and Nan.
- For Colson Whitehead, “The Coolest Writer in America is obviously [DC Comics villain] Mr. Freeze…”
- …while, for luminaries at the PEN gala, it’s Mr. Doctorow.
- Vanity Fair on “The New Yiddishists“: “They have this idea they don’t want to be pigeonholed.” Oops.
- Bookslut decamps for Berlin, where she will become, presumably, Buchschlampe.
- For “that pleasant L.A. malaise,” see this annotated reading list.
- Cool old covers for sci-fi chestnuts (via The Book Bench)…
- …and hot new covers for classics (via The Second Pass).
- Joseph O’Neill becomes the latest beneficiary of President Obama’s literary stimulus plan.
- The exclamation mark is back!!!
- The Esquire Fiction Contest is also back. All entries must be titled “Twenty-Ten,” “An Insurrection,” or “Never, Ever Bring This Up Again.”
- S.E. Hinton was literary royalty at the L.A. Times book festival.
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