- Bud Parr has video of the ethics and book reviewing panel.
- Scott Esposito talks with Chad Post (who, I learned has a new forthcoming press).
- Maxine returns to the Philly Inquirer pages, reviewing Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach, which serves as a thoughtful antidote to useless cockamamie.
- I am reading Bleak Housse right now, among perhaps thirty-three others. Scott Horton has revisited the book at Harper’s. (via Maud)
- Ron Hogan finds a frightening way to merge McCartney album cover photos, lolcats and BEA.
- “The Democracy of Don Quixote” (via Orthofer)
- Robert Birnbaum talks with Nathan Englander.
- RIP Mark Harris.
- Adam Golaski on active reading. (via Dan Green)
- “I think MySpace and You Tube and all the blogs are really the coming thing now.” You can always count on publishers to be a few years behind the curve.
- John Leonard on Yiddish Policemen’s Union.
- Jill Owens talks with Lionel Shriver (via Barking Kitten)
- I’m with Across the East River Ed): Jenny D’s delightful sandwich enthusiasm has me shuffling through numerous Victorian fictive exemplars.