A librarian who stole more than 500 antiquarian books worth ?175,000 from Manchester Central library, and then offered several for sale on an internet auction site, was given a suspended jail sentence yesterday.
VQR’s rejection slip gets a C+ (via Bookslut).
The Art of Translation at Critical Mass. Apparently a podcast of the discussion will be available soon.
What, exactly, did Knopf ever do to Kakutani? Does she like any Knopf novel?
The Devil Is a Gentleman is about eight new religious movements and the philosopher William James, so I have to admit that when I doing the book I was surprised by how often I wound up writing about music.
Oh, good. Another prize.
You take your car to work. I’ll take my board.
To quote the novelist Alexander McCall Smith, we are all only human, men particularly.