Helen DeWitt, who endured editorial trench-warfare over her novel The Last Samurai (that's a two-year-old link, but you should read it if you haven't), is still frustrated by many editors' singular idea of the reader.
• Large organisation? Money lying around? Bored of poets in residence? It's time for a publisher in residence!
• The only underpublicised fact about the Alice Hoffman Twitter critic-rage affair is hidden at the bottom of this Salon piece: it appears that Hoffman once inspired a bout of critic-rage herself – of a more physical form – after being rude about Richard Ford's The Sportwriter.
• And having failed to jump early on to James Joyce's use of the word "blog", I shall link to someone else's links on the subject.
• Here is an extremely cute way to promote libraries – probably too cute, in fact, to work for many of the people who don't already use them.
• Let Jonathan Lethem's glasses tell you a story.
• Can science fiction substitute for self-help books? Yes, say the commenters – start with decluttering the HP Lovecraft way ...
