
- Quick, note these Writers Trust Prize winners before the Giller tsunami turns publishing and bookselling into a one book business for a month or two;
- Annick Press in Toronto doing good work on e-book accessibility;
- What publishing trends need to die right now?;
- Gabriel Byrne to play Samuel Beckett in upcoming biopic? Yes, please, I’ll have two tickets up front;
- At the bleeding edge of audiobooks;
- Is it time to dump the classroom permanently?;
- Jhumpa Lahiri writes in the New Yorker about the book that taught her what translation was;
- Writers, quit bellyaching: there’s no such thing as “cleaner’s block”;
- Ze Germans love ze crime novels;
- World Fantasy Award Winners;
- Merve Emre, one of my favourite public intellectuals, talking about Mrs. Dalloway with Deborah Levy at LitHub;
- While I am deeply distrustful of the various money-making industries springing up around the corpse of Leonard Cohen, I will probably read one or two of these books about him and his life-long preparation for death;