Would you buy your way into a novel? For $900 CDN you can determine the title of Daniel Perlmutter’s next book. If that’s a little steep for ya, $15 gets one of your sentences in there.
Literally crowding the text
Short Stories for the 305
WLRN-Miami Herald News is soliciting writers of flash fiction, extremely short nonfiction, or prosaic poetry for "VERY brief" stories: "As in 305 words or less -- '3-0-5' being at one time the area code for entire state of Florida."
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Digital and Co.
Pirating versus purchasing used ebooks - who wins? Ayelet Waldman and John Scalzi discuss.
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The Notebook Takes the Stage
Nicholas Sparks is working on a Broadway musical adaptation of The Notebook. The question this raises, of course, is whether or not current internet meme-célèbre Ryan Gosling will reprise his starring role.
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Jewish America
Saul Bellow on being Jewish in America, and Lorin Stein, in an interview, discusses contemporary Jewish writers.
More Marginalia
Sam Anderson's brilliant Year in Marginalia inspires MobyLives to announce the "Melville House Marginalia Contest."
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Borders Leftovers
At The Daily Beast, our own Bill Morris goes to a Borders store closing due to bankruptcy to see what remains once all the good books have been picked clean.
The Paris Review Redux
"I hope they also love that experience of surprise and delight and really engaging stories in the fiction sense, but also in the writers at work sense and in the poetic sense." A Vanity Fair interview with Emily Nemens, The Paris Review's new editor. And here's a list of 20 reasons you should absolutely be reading literary magazines.