Bookmarks: closing libraries, rewarding booksellers, and filming Chabon
Some book-related (but not Valentine’s Day-themed, alas) links:
- Victoria library locks out workers, shuts down all branches (Victoria Times Colonist)
- California bookseller gets $500k MacArthur grant (MSNBC)
- The Coen Brothers to filmify Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union (Variety)
- Toronto, according to Michael Redhill’s Consolation – with spoilers! (Spacing)
- James Wolcott on Donald Barthelme (Bookforum)
- Borders unveils its first shiny new-style store* (Reuters)
* and it has its own Long Pen booth! (MLive.com)
