Cornel West's new memoir, says Scott McLemee, is "like a celebrity profile... in which reporter and superstar have somehow fused into a single first-person voice". And that's not the line that will really smart, either.
• Covers from Harlequin – that's Amercian for Mills & Boon – are being exhibited in Las Vegas.
• The correspondence between Erle Stanley Gardner, crime novelist, and Nathan Leopold, murderer. From the same source: the exclamation-mark of the immigrant.
• Ghost-writers on cover credit: "I preferred to fight for money." (My ghost-linkfinder, in this case, was Bookninja.)
