Variety: “News Corp.-owned HarperCollins announced the news late Friday on the East Coast with a terse press release headlined ‘Judith Regan Terminated.’ Termination was effective immediately, the statement said. Move was clearly a reaction — albeit a delayed one — to the embarrassing scandal involving a Regan tome and T.V. special with O.J. Simpson titled ‘If I Did It,’ in which he described the way he would have committed the murders of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman. That event earned across-the-board condemnation and a statement from Murdoch, who called the event ‘ill-considered’ and yanked both the book and special.”

It’s a Wonderful Life in its entirety.

Peaches is 38 years old. Keep this in mind as you watch this interview with Henry Rollins. Questions that come to mind: Is this an act? Could Peaches be this inarticulate in real life? She was once a librarian. You wouldn’t know watching this clip.

I don’t know how I missed it a few months ago, but Bookninja chatted with Deborah Eisenberg.

Joan Didion on Evelyn Waugh (1962): “It is precisely this hardness of mind which creates a gulf between Evelyn Waugh and most American readers. There is a fine edge on, and a perfect balance to, his every perception, and although he is scarcely what you could call unread in the United States, neither is he what you could call understood.”