• Largehearted Boy chit-chats with Alex Robinson, one of the nicest guys in the comic book industry, for his Book Notes series.
• Sarah offers a remembrance to Dorothy Uhnak.
• When it comes to book readings, Leigh Redhead is a genius!
• Pakistan literary giant Ahamad Nadeem Quasimi has passed away at 89.
• Reminder to litbloggers and media: Folks, can we stop talking about that skinny blonde neocon? If a shameless exhibitionist like me can, so can you! You know that old Twilight Zone where a millionaire beats a chatterbox that the chatterbox can’t talk for a year? Why can’t George Soros make a similar offer to the blogosphere?
• Happy 100, acquittal of Alfred Dreyfus!
• Mr. Orthofer bemoans the lack of Raja Rao obits.
• Sammy T’s current preoccupation? Lesbians.
• Are students writing worse than ever? More importantly, at what point do we measure the decline? Last month? Last year? Ten years ago? And can a lazy empirical approach to this hypothesis speak for students as a whole? Or is Laurence Musgrove full of fecal matter? And can I conclude this bullet item without ending a sentence in a question mark? Rhetoric rhetoric rhetroic. Goes good with a muddy cup of Joe.
• Another year, another Bulwer-Lytton winner.
• Whatever happened to Ladybird?
• Mmmmm….bacon. (via Bookninja)
• I advocate any grassroots effort to confine Joan Rivers to a three-digit figure.
• Lauren Cerand involutes the Zidane scandal, which I think applies to nearly all sports figures (and particularly players-turned-commentators, who, on the whole, show about as much sartorial sense as a seven year old let loose in Hugo Boss with an arsenal of Ben Franklins).
• Last week was apparently the least watched week of television in recorded history. Common sense or another example for Chris Anderson to latch onto?
• Why are so many books written about Tintin?
• Leon Wieseltier: “I think that if a critic discovers a book or a show that he finds pernicious, it is his solemn responsibility to try to do as much damage to the fortunes of that as he possibly can.” Can you imagine sharing a hotel room with this guy?
• A collection of celebrity wedding cakes. (via Quiddity)

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