- Tayari Jones hosts a Q&A with her publicist Lauren Cerand.
- Robert Birnbaum chats with Susan Orlean.
- C. Max Magee serves up a list of forthcoming 2006 books. Surely, a nocturnal emission is to be found in there somewhere.
- Matt Cheney chats with editorial director Tina Pohlman.
- Louis Menand on Timothy Leary.
- Finnish crime novelist Mauri Sariola used a ghost writer for sixteen crime novels.
- New York Times Corrections: “A report in the What’s Online column in Business Day on Saturday, about the dismissal of two investigative reporters at Time magazine, misspelled the surname of one reporter. He is Donald Barlett, not Bartlett.” Indeed. Bartlett rose to prominence with James Steele with a series of Washington Post columns turned into books (America: What Went Wrong? being the most prominent). The last thing the Gray Lady wants is to throw the arc on their more grammatically able competitors.
- Time has listed five mystery writers worth investigating (including recent LBC nominee Jeffrey Ford). (via Gwenda)
- If the recent bookstore closings have depressed any San Franciscans reading this blog, I should note that we’re getting our first branch library in 40 years. Hurray!
- Teachers vs. Plagiarists. Film at eleven. (via Bookninja)
- Scientists are hoping to reassemble Maimonides’ works. (via Books, Words & Writing)
- Box of Books has been serving up interviews with various litbloggers.
- The Huntington Library is all set to receive the Charles Bukowski archive.
- The Los Angeles Times offers a report of the McSweeney’s “World Explained” show.
- David Thayer speculates on what the hell Updike is getting at.