Rejection letters from various literary magazines, as collected by Deb Schwartz. (via Moorish Girl)

A desperate baker in Portland, Maine has tried to woo low-carb obsessives back to bread with an Atkins alternative culled from The Da Vinci Code.

Recent NYT refugee Elvis Mitchell is writing a book about Richard Pryor. Meanwhile, Walter Mosley is writing the liner notes to a forthcoming 9-CD boxed set. And Pryor himself is writing a sequel to Pryor Convictions.

Botheration is blogging a page of Ulysses a day, courtesy of the 100th anniversary. (via MadInkBeard)