At the LRB blog, Andrew O'Hagan dilates on the Queen Mother's friendship with Ted Hughes.

• What it's like to be copy-edited (or rather copy-edited, then query-proofread, then proofread, then night-foundry proofread) by the New Yorker. (Via.)

• Most overrated novels? It depends what you mean by overrated.

• Early Isaac Rosenberg sells at roughly £200 a page.

• You can have "Moby Dick without the Dick" in either metaphorical or literal versions.