- Rumors of John Cheever’s death? Greatly exaggerated.
- HarperCollins sets out to test the proposition that there really is no such thing as bad publicity.
- BHL rips Valkyrie and Tom Cruise.
- Maud lauds Marlon James, author of The Book of Night Women.
- The New York Public Library names Millions guest contributor Sana Krasikov a finalist for its Young Lions award. Congratulations, Sana!
- More Intelligent Life interviews Jon Fasman, another Young Lion in waiting and author of The Unpossessed City
- Also at MiL: Lorin Stein wants a stimulus plan for book critics. (Hear! Hear!)
- Millions-fave Paul Theroux interviewed by the Boston Globe: “People say to me: How can I become a writer? I always say: one, leave home; two, tell the truth.”
- xkcd takes on the Kindle.
- “Jack Kerouac’s ‘lost’ novel The Sea is My Brother, which he wrote during his years as a merchant seaman, is to be published in its entirety for the first time.”
- Soon there will be a literary prize for everyone: “The St. Francis College Literary Prize is designed for a fourth published book of fiction.” ($50,000!)
- The strangest title shortlist
- Via Gwenda, the Wikipedia find of the week: “A book curse was the most widely-employed and effective method of discouraging the thievery of manuscripts during the medieval period.”
- The best reasoning yet for why the Kindle/”Text-to-Speech” uproar is dumb. Meanwhile, Amazon backs down.
- “I”, “we”, “two” and “three” the oldest English words.
- A resourceful group of Chinese enthusiasts creates bootleg translations of every issue of The Economist.
- Shark-jumping: “HarperCollins Pays Big Advance For A Book Of… Tweets“
- Stuff White Readers Should Like
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