- Lots of action with the online mags: There’s a new issue of The Hipster Book Club, with a review of Aleksander Hemon’s Love and Other Obstacles, and an interview with Glen David Gold. There’s a new Quarterly Conversation, which includes Scott Esposito’s thoughtful consideration of Cormac McCarthy. Issue 3 of N1BR is out. And the first issue of The Point includes a piece on David Foster Wallace’s legacy.
- Brooklyn gets a new bookstore: Greenlight!
- Corpus Librus, the BEA edition
- In an interview with Ed Champion, Sherman Alexie clarifies his comments about the Kindle being elitist.
- Tibor Fischer shares a first look at Thomas Pynchon’s forthcoming Inherent Vice.
- The seven types of bookstore customers. (via)
- An incredible collection of pocket paperback colophons.
- Coming soon from The Onion, Inventory, a collection of “obsessively specific pop-culture lists.”
- The Ask Metafilter crowd suggests what to read after 2666.
- For fans of style guides, here’s one from The Economist
- FOUND Magazine founder Davy Rothbart is crazy about vintage NBA jerseys. (via)
- Further Reading: Edan’s post on gifting books in a digital age generated a bunch of interesting comments. Be sure to check them out. On a related note, in PopMatters, Michael Antman bemoans the disappearance of the “physical manifestations of contemporary culture.”
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