Edward Champion's Return of the Reluctant

Because I Can't Sleep

• Understatement of the week: Joyce Carol Oates, "The process of writing is something that I live with everyday."
• Yardley on J.D. Salinger
• The Plot Against America -- failed Saturday Night Live skit?
• Independent publisher Cannongate is rolling in the dough, thanks in part to such titles as The Life of Pi and The Crimson Petal and the White.
• Tonight, the Booker Prize winner will be announced. Longshot (and the only woman nominated) Sarah Hall talks with the Guardian.
• Where's Grambo on this one? Angelina Jolie loves sleeping with British men.