“Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.”

Stanford "will rerelease a collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's tales of Sherlock Holmes, just as they were originally printed and illustrated in The Strand Magazine."Maciej Ceglowski suggests that Milan Kundera "is the Dave Matthews of Slavic letters, a talented hack, certainly a hack who's paid his dues, but a hack nonetheless." And offers up a number of Eastern European books that young lovers might give to one another instead of The Unbearable Lightness of Being.Google Print has been renamed Google Book Search. "Why the change? Well, one factor was all the comments we got about how excited people were that Google Print would help them print out their documents, or web pages they visit -- which of course it won't."

Silver Press is a new feminist publisher based in London. Forthcoming titles include Leonora Carrington's The Debutante and Other Stories, which you can read about here, as well as the first U.K. edition of Audre Lorde's essays and poetry.

Please welcome the newest Millions reader: August Hudson Magee, born Monday morning!

“Russian author Leo Tolstoy’s entire body of work – all 90 volumes – along with comprehensive biographical materials has been posted online and will be available for free, a descendant said.”