- An excerpt of the lost and recently found Alexandre Dumas novel The Last Cavalier
- An assessment of poetic cliches in VQR. The surprise: some actually improve your chance of getting published.
- Jennifer Gilmore interviews the criminally underrated Max Apple.
- That novelists’ strike not working out so well.
- Despite some withering condescension, Robert Gottlieb has interesting things to say about John Steinbeck.
- Penguin UK offers up some alternative storytelling techniques with its We Tell Stories site. The first is a tale by Charles Cumming told by messages inserted into Google Maps. (Thx, Mrs. Millions)
- Books cops like. (Thx, Laurie)
- The trend of the massive hyper-expensive book continues.
- Daniel Radosh points out that the New York Times has, yet again, published a trend piece on bloggers getting book deals.
- And finally… The Catalog of Unfit Toys: Finding Delight in the Defective