Susan Sontag's estimate of the late Claude Lévi-Strauss, projected forwards to us by way of two excellent blogs.

• Is it possible to be addicted to books signed by the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous? The follow-up, with auction prices, suggests yes.

• "Sadly," confesses dovegreyreader, "my heart doesn't do that little leap of joy at the sight or thought of a Trollope."

• Excessively clever things to do with a notebook binding; eventually someone will write a novel that requires one.

• A rising writer's little horror story.