- Writer’s Trust Fiction Prize announced today – get to know finalists here (Ms. Ninja was a judge this year);
- Booker Prize finalists profiled similarly;
- Carnegie Literary Medal finalists (Q: Does award season ever end?);
- (A: No.) UK’s Women’s Poet Prizes handed out;
- Vox tours the “must-reads” of the NBA finalists (see?);
- Are you a Buffy person? (I’ve never seen!) The principal from the show wrote a novel;
- Separating faction from myth in the burning of the Library at Alexandria;
- Ray Bradbury burned (!) nearly $10 typing out Fahrenheit 451;
- Actually useful advice: How to pack books for moving;
- Could S&S get bought by… ew… NewsCorp?;
- BoingBoing focuses in on the early ages of glorious book covers;
- On the simple brilliance of…. Miffy;
- How local libraries helped shape the brilliance of Octavia E. Butler;
- The Dublin Writers’ museum profiled… Been there a few times… you really only need one visit to cover it all, so I don’t know why I go back;
