- W.W. Norton puts together a project similar to our Year in Reading (and with some participants in common): Writers Recommend.
- Another clever batch of recommendations: Village Voice asks several notables to recommend their favorite “obscure” books.
- Three Percent reveals its 25-book longlist for the “Best Translated Book of 2008″ (Bonus Link: The Prizewinners: International Edition)
- A conversation with South African poet and anti-apartheid activist Breyten Breytenbach
- Todd Zuniga’s (of Opium Magazine and Literary Death Match) “favorite writers we haven’t heard of yet.”
- Best book cover designs of the year. (via 3% and kottke)
- Maud reproduces the memo behind the huge reorganization at Random House (which itself is just one part of the belt tightening hitting the publishing industry in recent weeks.)
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