Norman Mailer: “If the media covers nothing but a protest that becomes violent, if they ice out so much dissent, how do you reach? My point is they can ice it out for a period. They cannot keep icing it out. We are a force of outrage. I’m just saying that this force – I’m just hoping that this force waits four months to express itself and then has its jubilee.”

The LNR Diary takes a look at Martin Amis’s Yellow Dog and concludes it’s not as bad as everyone made it out to be, although Paddy Bullard’s more mystified by why it isn’t more impressive more than anything.

Martin Amis’s The Information? Stephen King’s Bag of Bones? Charles Frazier’s advance for the Cold Mountain followup? They ain’t got nothing on Alicia Keys.

Salman Rushdie says that pornography is vital to freedom. His views are to be published in a book called XXX:30 Porn Star, which features photos of porn stars and will come with a complimentary roll of toilet paper.

Kurt Vonnegut believes that his America can be found in libraries.