If you give the editorial staff a camera...

You know how everyone's gotten excited about buying Flip cameras to make bookstore videos? How come none of us thought of building a children's book domino rally until now?

Booksellers in Dallas and Boston, E. Lockhart wants to meet you. See her blog for details.

I hereby draft Nick Harkaway as my personal legalese interpreter. (I suppose the rest of you can borrow him, but I get top priority.)

Bookish controversy of the week, courtesy of WSJ: Lev Grossman's defense of plot-focused fiction. See responses from Dustin at McNally Jackson, Andrew Seal, Matthew Cheney, Jeff VanderMeer, Chad Post, Gerry at PartnersWest, and Gwenda Bond.

Bookish controversy of the week, courtesy of NYT: required reading. See responses from Meg Cabot, Jenny Rappaport, Lois Lowry, The Reading Zone, Monica Edinger, Donalyn Miller, and Candy at Smart Bitches.

At ShelfTalker, Elizabeth asks, "Where's Ramona Quimby, Black and Pretty?"

Paper Cuts' look at the "discussion questions" in Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monsters is pretty good. But scroll down to the comments to see it devolve into an (apparently) serious discussion of the characteristics of sea witches.

And the last word for today goes to Katherine Fergason: "Not all those who wander are lost.... some are just trying to find Memoirs of a Geisha in the biography section."

Posted at 10:29AM Sep 04, 2009 by Sarah Rettger in General  |  Comments[2]