- The Horn Book has a new owner.
- Just updated the Read Read sidebar with a recommendation for Kelley Armstrong's The Summoning.
- Sara Zarr has an essay up at Powell's about how authors can't escape their themes.
- Ben Dooley offers some thoughts on The Printed Blog, an interesting concept to say the least.
- Jenny D's been catching up on her light reading, including her first Gossip Girl experience. I think her take's right on; these books are filled with ironic distance.
- Kassia offers her typically savvy take on the recent NEA report showing that reading is on the rise.
- Ed Park offers up yet another enthusiastic endorsement for The Serial Garden, which I really do have to get around to one day soon.
- Best news story of the day: Goat Detained for Armed Robbery. (And, no, going to the link won't spoil it. It gets even better.) (Via Sarah.)
- And if you need even more animal story in your day, Jeff VanderMeer offers the cupcake dog. Poor cupcake dog!
- I want to read all the book's on Erin's list too.
- Nicola uncovers our dusty future.
- The fantastical noir trend of 2009? Penguin just sent an actual copy of Jed's book, The Manual of Detection, and it's one of the most beautiful book as objects I've encountered in ages. Bonus: an excellent book between the purty covers. Put it on your list.