- Simon and Schuster seems to be able to sell anything, except itself;
- Canadian universities ironically celebrate press week while constantly shafting non-university publishers and writers;
- Some year end lists are appearing: Time, TLS, New Statesman, etc.
- Chicago libraries eliminate fines, renew relevance;
- I’m gonna go out on a limb and say these 10 NaNoWriMo books that are supposed to inspire you to finish your shitty, dashed-off novel in a month have certain shitty, dashed-off air to them;
- Winner of winners in Women’s Prize is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie;
- I like BookRiot: it’s pretty light, run reading usually, and staunchly pro-book… but today they’re posting about how to keep up “a bookish lifestyle without actually reading“… tsk;
- Eudora Welty on growing up bookish;
- Kama Sutra font porn (Vaguely NSFW, if your place of business is not your home office with the curtains closed and your track pants round your ankles);
- You know, when I was a young actor struggling to find even one role for a chubby redhead, I envied Jason Priestly with his big eyes and perfect sideburns and slightly worried/bewildered eyebrows… Now he just looks like a guy who got to the pub two hours before me… Oh, and he’s in a Linwood Barclay adaptation;
