- Our friend “Tom” finds that music soothes the savage vampire.
- Joseph O’Neill explores the “wholesome… misanthropy” of Flannery O’Connor.
- The Nation offers up a depressing assessment of the book business: “It is a confused, confusing and very fluid situation, and no one can predict how books and readers will survive.”
- “Why Donald Duck Is the Jerry Lewis of Germany“
- NPR talks to the author of the just published biography, Gabriel Garcia Marquez: A Life.
- Daniel Green launches new online journal Critical Distance.
- “Will Philadelphia be the place where the American newspaper dies?” (via)
- The Complete Review considers Bolaño’s Amulet.
