Because every woman I know has read Cosmo at least once and probably still feels guilty about it: Our Lives According to Women’s Magazines (via Bookslut)
Also via Bookslut: “With all due respect to the author, we remain unsure how to categorize this particular work,” said committee chair Leslie Buncombe, who, despite repeated readings, still wasn’t sure if [Jim Belushi’s] Real Men was “an actual book.”
George Bush reads Camus and Slate finds it newsworthy.
New to me: Carl Lennertz of HarperCollins has a blog. Read the Gothamist interview as well, while you’re at it (via Galleycat).
Language Log’s take on Lynn Truss’ new children’s book (predictably, there is a potshot at Strunk and White–that particular vendetta is just too bad).
And finally, for those of you who have to deal with memoirists and fiction writers on a regular basis: how to spot a liar.