Pages Books & Magazines may be closing its doors for good at the end of August, but not without throwing itself a massive send-off party. Pages staffer and event organizer Chris Reed has sent out a message to members of the This Is Not a Reading Series Facebook group requesting reminiscences, photographs, memorabilia, etc., of the iconic downtown Toronto store’s 30 years in business.

We are collecting material to be presented at “Afterword: A Celebration Of 30 Years,” an event presented by Pages Books & Magazines, Coach House Books, Gladstone Hotel, NOW Magazine, Spacing Magazine, and This is Not A Reading Series, to be held at Gladstone Hotel on Sept 8.

What has Pages Books meant to you over the years? Tell us your tale. Do you have photos? We’d love to see them!

If you have memories or photos you’d like to share, send them to my.pagesbooks.story@gmail.com by August 24.

Sundry links from around the Web:

• A British hamlet opens a paper recycling mill that, among other things, will specialize in pulping Penguin’s titles.
• Will Austria become a black market for German book buyers?
• Apple’s potential response to the Kindle.

Thirteen years after the blockbuster success of Fugitive Pieces, Anne Michaels is about to publish her second novel, and she’s Q&Q’s cover subject in the April 2009 issue, which is available now. Also in April, we look at the some of the ideas for industry networking and sales-generating that have sprung up in the wake of BookExpo Canada’s collapse, and at the Literary Press Group’s future plans now that new executive director Jack Illingworth is on board. Plus reviews of new books by David Suzuki, Kim Echlin, Trevor Herriot, Robert J. Sawyer, Vlasta van Kampen, Tim Wynne-Jones, and more. The full table of contents is after the jump.
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Sundry links from around the Web:

• Lorrie Moore reviews the new Donald Barthelme biography (you can hear her thoughts here).
• The late John Updike had an early look at the John Cheever biography.
• Apparently, one of the century’s great correspondents was Samuel Beckett, “the man who said ‘every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.’”
• More layoffs at Borders. This time, the retailing giant cuts 742 jobs (nearly 3% of its workforce), most of them managerial positions at its superstores.
• Meanwhile, competitor Barnes & Noble buys e-book retailer Fictionwise.com for $15.7-million.
• A surefire pick-me-up: Author Tobias Wolff, onstage with John Darnielle (aka The Mountain Goats) in New York City. Wait for the chorus, when the grandfatherly Wolff chimes in.