- Imran Ahmad, "The Perfect Gentleman", at the Clinton School of Public Service, one of the many stops in his recently concluded 50-city US tour. It's an hour-long video, but worth a look. And he looks better now, after losing some weight.
- Who knows all about your steamy reading habits? Your e-reader, probably. As well as Barnes & Noble, Amazon, and maybe Apple. So much for anonymous reading. Speaking of Apple: the e-book pricing hearing involving Apple and the several other pubishers who refused to settle with the US Justice Department is set for 2013.
- Books at farmers' markets? Now that's how you get your books to your target audience. Of course it has to be the right kind of books.
- Editors: Is it time to stop dropping the F-bomb? And is literary writing really dead?
- "I could still be sued and lose everything." A victim of UK's libel laws speaks out. Might make interesting reading, in light of the amendments to our Evidence Act.
- The horrifically 'glamourous' book launch by an author who "doesn't physically write" her own books. "In the name of G*d", indeed.
- The New Yorker says goodbye to the Village Voice Bookshop in Paris.
- Redemption through reading: Brazilian jail lets inmates shorten sentences with sentences.
- 11 authors who hated how their books were made into films. Mary Poppins was a surprise.
- A daughter's quest to publish her dying mother's Civil War-era novel.
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