• The real podcasts worth listening to? The sexual ones.
• Sophie Kinsella learned to bake bread while researching her latest novel. Sadly, neither the recipe nor samples of Kinsella’s bread are being offered with the purchase of a book. Come on, Sophie! Think bigger!
• The cult of reclusive authors is examined by the Cape Times: specifically, Cormac McCarthy and John Twelve Hawks.
• Forget the loss of a family member or the end of a bad relationship. A website has been set up to cope with the real grief of our age: helping Harry Potter fans to cope with plot revelations in the latest book.
• Apparently, pigs can fly.
• Ann Coulter has been caught plagiarizing. Apparently, the sentence “We should invade their countries, kill their leaders, and convert them to Christianity” was originally published in White Power Monthly. (via Moby Lives)
• And finally, a non-porn narrative film that portrays real sex. One more reason to like Michael Winterbottom: authenticity instead of faux Hollywood orgasms.

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• Like the Rake, Professor Fury sings the praises of Jack Butler and reminds me that I’ve yet to pick a Butler book up. The situation will be corrected this week.
• And speaking of the Rake, he finds the real reason to flip through Bookmark Now. And unsurprisingly, it involves Michelle Richmond.
• Collected Miscellany talks wiith Michelle Herman.
• Randa Jarrar depicts BEA from a cabbie’s perspective. (via Maud)
• Megan has her BEA report up.

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• The 56th Frankfurt Book Fair begins on Wednesday and Hannah Wettig wants to know if Arab literature has a chance. Meanwhile, publisher Mohammed Rashad shares his thoughts. [UPDATE: And I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that Laila has weighed in as well.]
• Attorneys for the estate of John Steinbeck’s widow want Steinbeck’s heirs to back off. Who knew that Oprah’s East of Eden pick could transmute into such a nuisance?
• Just when he got out, Mark Winegardner is pulling him back in. “At the same time I’m trying to write a novel that would be appealing to the popcorn crowd, and God bless ’em. I think literary writers can lose sight of the sheer page-turning pleasure that a novel can give,” says Winegardner of The Godfather Returns. Don’t you mean the sizable paycheck, Mark?
• The Scotsman notes that Edinburgh’s literary reputation as a murder apex is unfounded. There were only six murders in the past twelve months, and all of them were solved.
• Eduardo Gonzalez Viana has been awarded Peru’s highest literary honor.
• Four original Norman Rockwells are being unloaded to save a library with ties to Funk & Wagnalls.
• The James Joyce Bloomsbury expo hits Boston and The Globe is impressed.

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