This Dickens guy just won the lottery!!!
And don’t forget to watch the Franzen/Oprah encounter later today

Vonnegut – “Perhaps a real masterpiece cannot be crucified on a cross of this design.“

Steve Martin very tactfully addresses his public and the 92nd Street Y

Drowning in the joy of Simenon

Be thankful for:
People who go out of their way to support young writers
People who still want to open brick-n-mortar bookstores

Has anything ever been so right yet so wrong at the same time?

Nothing you could have done with your Saturday compares to this – Kyle Minor and Nick Bruno read entire Barry Hannah collection live

Writers – you can finally justify all those hours spent playing Grand Theft Auto. Research! Its now a tax deduction.

Most Educated Cities

“The Worlds Earliest Securely Dated Printed Book” – is very very cool

Apparently Playboy centerfolds love Ayn Rand

Hope you did this Saturday: Take your child to a bookstore!

Font god Matther Carter on ebooks

Harvard University discovers Nobel Peace Prize Winner

Is there ANYTHING the pharmaceutical companies don’t have their evil tentacles in

Salonica runs a holiday gift list actually worth reading

Brief introduction to a great author Jonathan Safran Foer recently eviscerated– watch the video here, its going to be in the running for a Moby Award

Are you running a struggling Anarchist Bookstore?

Did you even know there was an Asia Literary Review

This hasn’t happened all that often so ENJOY!

Post Twain UC Press hires a new director

Friend of literature Elaine Kaufman has died

Nubian author Idris Ali had died

Four volumes become twelve and the University of Chicago will give you one for free!

Where were these books a week ago? With ebooks we’ll be getting these even faster!!! No more pesky printing and shipping to slow down the delivery of great literature.

George Mason University manages to make Victorian literature even less sexy