Some proportion of this "Libertarians for Scrooge" piece must be deliberate self-parody; determining how much, however, would require a very delicate critic. (Via.)

• Still more contrarian: Boycott all books! They're evil!

• What's involved in designing a Dan Brown cover.

• The New Yorker on university press logos (sad about the Yale one).

• Stephen King's baseball report for McSweeney's one-off newspaper. I want that thing. I'll probably keep wanting it until I get into a bookshop and see the price.

• On Roald Dahl's advance from adulthood to childhood.