- Both Carrie and Callie share their thoughts on Marisha Pessl’s Special Topics in Calamity Physics. Callie will be conducting a roundtable next week to discuss the novel.
- There are two novelists named on Time‘s influential people list: Nora Roberts and David Mitchell. The latter certainly has had titular influence upon me.
- Audible is slowly getting out of the red.
- Mohsin Hamid reports that of course, he’s biased.
- Nicholas Lehman on the advent of broadcast television and the James Baughman book that documents it.
- Bill Bryson is now fighting litter. Whether a book on the subject is forthcoming is anyone’s guess.
- Egyptian journalists and bloggers are fighting oppression. (via Laila)
- Sarah reviews the new Nathan Englander book in the Philly Inquirer.
- Spidey 3 is getting somewhat mixed reviews.
- Comic Mix reminds folks that tomorrow is Free Comic Day.