“This Book is Delicious!”

The trailer for Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel’s Life of Pi is out, and it's b-e-a-utiful.

Year in Reading alum Rumaan Alam reflects at The Literary Hub about the labels we ascribe to texts. Pair with his recent interview with Lindsay Hatton.

"My mind flashed that disembodied jaw at me in a jaw’s version of full color; a dirty white that bone and snow agree on." This piece of original short fiction from Kashana Cauley at The Daily Beast will make you never want to set foot in a Hermés store–or even just shop on Black Friday.

Penguin Books UK has started a podcast. I've added it to my Literary Podcasts post. (via)Law blog Groklaw has a good post explaining the Google Print project and the controversy surrounding it, and Lawrence Lessig has news of a program coming up at the New York Public Library on November 17 called "The Battle Over Books: Authors and Publishers Take on the Google Print Project."Golden Rule Jones has a list of this year's Chicago fiction, and at Pete Lit, Pete tells us about Chicago Noir, a collection edited by Neal Pollock with stories by Adam Langer, Kevin Guilfoile and others.

Does poetry still matter? At NPR, Tracy K. Smith says yes.