- The mythology of Roberto Bolaño’s hard-knock life is starting to crumble: his widow says he was never a heroin addict, and others say he was not in Chile during the Pinochet coup.
- Slate takes a quick look around at the state of the book business.
- Russell Smith offers some reading recommendations.
- BookNet Canada asks: are e-readers’ claims to a greater greenness overstated?
- Stephenie Meyer still hasn’t gone back to that novel that got leaked; she’s now working on something else.
