Curiosities: Cartoon Batting Averages

Colson Whitehead says “Wow, Fiction Works!“
The LA Times has a clip from the movie version of David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews With Hideous Men, directed by The Office star John Krasinski. (via)
Carolyn writes about the real-life connection between Walker Percy and Bruce Springsteen.
The Village Voice shows off the final results of its highly scientific system of determining New Yorker cartoonists’ batting averages.
Cambridge Information Group, which owns Bowker, AquaBrowser, ProQuest, Serials Solutions and RefWorks makes an investment in LibraryThing.
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A book that has turned out to be so wrong it has become a collectors item (check out the prices): The Bush Boom: How a Misunderestimated President Fixed a Broken Economy

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