Presidential politics roiled this week’s PEN/Faulkner Award gala at the Folger Shakespeare Library, as best-selling novelist Terry McMillan spoke out during the black-tie benefit and left people whispering, “Did she really say that?” Yes, she did.
So many books, so little space. The Washington Post laments and lists four books it didn’t review. [via Yen Cheong]
Book spines turned into stories… at BoingBoing.
What sets a good book cover apart from a bad one? An interview with artist Chip Kidd. [via dp]
Meet the authors of the California Authors Directory. Visit the directory to discover writers like Andrew Sean Greer, a San Francisco novelist whose latest book, 
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