- RIP: Bell Hooks, author and thinker, dead at 69;
- The NYer considers her legacy;
- Did you know that Publisher’s Weekly picks a person of the year?
- Scotland opens year of stories (none of which wear underwear);
- Barak Obama’s books of the year… Gosh, he dreamy;
- Celebrity crime fiction on trial;
- Bookworm alert: how to protect your books from bugs;
- Anne Rice’s final interview;
- Remember when Philip K Dick revealed we live in the Matrix? In 77;
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