- The third and final installment of the secret histories roundtable.
- Fusenumber8 recommends the reissue of The Slightly Irregular Fire Engine, a book for children by Donald Barthelme. It looks lovely, what with all those Victorian woodcuts.
- Time on Frank Portman’s King Dork.
- Writers and others on books they loved this year at the Guardian.
- Mark Sarvas talks to Jonathan Lethem about the work of novelist Daniel Fuchs.
- Paul Boutin loves the battery-powered Tesla Roadster over at Slate, and the one person in the world who actually wants to read that O.J. book (if only–it appears there are actually many in this camp) says so.
- Paul Kincaid on The Prestige–the movie and the script.
- Just in time: A book about Bond.