- Real posts again someday soon,as soon as I put this book to rest.
- Borders recently announced their Original Voices picks for the year. The YA category in particular has a couple of titles I highly recommend: Andrew Auseon’s Funny Little Monkey and John Green’s Looking for Alaska. (Via GalleyCat.)
- Go download the new version of Firefox.
- Jimmy Beck boils the bad sex nominees down to their essences (magically rendering them even funnier in the process). "Yo. Watch where you point that thing." Kills.
- Susan Orlean is the first writer up in Powell’s new project to have authors guest blog for a week. (Via Pinky’s Paperhaus.) Pinky points out that Orlean’s first post is, charmingly, about every writer’s favorite sin procrastination.
- The Lannan Foundation awarded writer Gilbert Sorrentino its Lifetime Achievement Award yesterday. The fabulous Coffee House Press has brought out several of his recent books.
- The end of year issue of BoldType is out and looks full of good stuff.