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Bookmarks (bad news edition): Fiction is in trouble, booksellers flee Paris, and the Bush library is under construction

Some book-related links:

  • George Steiner says narrative fiction’s days are numbered (The Guardian)
  • Parisian booksellers leave city for picturesque town – there’s a charming and quirky romantic comedy just waiting to be written here (Deutsche Welle)
  • Work started on Bush Presidential Library, cheap jokes (The New York Times)
  • Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck, dies at 60 (Slate)
  • Father and son both pen memoirs about son’s meth addiction (Los Angeles Times)
  • Is Abebooks a wolf in sheep’s clothing? (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
  • michel basilieres

    “now that anything can be said, fiction is in deep trouble”

    without the original context, this remark of Steiner’s makes no sense. with context, who knows?

  • angel guerra

    Steiner: mountain goat of the abyss. Scuffed ass and brain and twitchy with dread.

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