- An interview with Tim Powers
- A fascinating article on convention centers and how Massimiliano Fuksas hopes to change the paradigm.
- Be still my beating ventricles: the Atlantic offers a full Francine Prose interview online. (via Bookdwarf)
- Why can’t novelists write for the stage? An intricate question that I leave to the Gamesters of Triskelion. (via Bookninja)
- It looks like Kevin Smith has given up on the Fletch films. Bill Lawrence will write and direct Fletch Won. It will be interesting to see how these get adapted, particularly since Zach Braff will play Fletch instead of Jason Lee. (via Sarah)
- Heck of a job, Gray Lady.
- Jack Shafer digs the NYT capsules.
- Canadian magazine readers are diminishing.
- Book of the Day doesn’t think much of Millenia Black’s The Great Pretender.
- An Alberto Mendez story in the New Yorker.
- Sara Peretsky on V.I. Warshawki’s drinking. (via Pete Lit)
- Levi Asher chit-chats with Matthew Pearl.