Lions, and Tigers, and Fords

It's official: Borders has announced it will begin liquidating its 399 bookstores this week. Store closures could begin as early as this Friday and will continue through September, according to the Times.

“Although comfortable with solitude, he admits: ‘I couldn't write all the time. As a writer, you have to come out into the world. I don't have a Salinger or a Pynchon impulse. There are so many things to do that are interesting.’” Talking with Ian McEwan.

"And this is a story about what women can do to each other—why women are cruel to each other, why women don’t reach down and help each other." In conversation for Vanity Fair, Megan Abbott and Gillian Flynn talk about female rage, #MeToo, and Sharp Objects, the HBO series based on Flynn's novel. Pair with: Millions staffers Janet Potter and Edan Lepucki talk about Flynn and her novels. 

Shia LeBeouf’s written and illustrated a book of poetry entitled Let’s Fucking Party, and you can check out a review of it over at Panels on Pages. How do you think this project compares with, say, James Franco’s Palo Alto?

This Friday Slate will premiere its first monthly book review feature. On the first weekend of every month, the Slate Book Review will take over the site's main page.  Senior culture editor Dan Kois told the New York Times that he was displeased to watch newspaper after newspaper scrapping their book sections; “it didn’t seem to me that there was less of an appetite for good writing about books.”