Here's a parody of the New York Times' often overly-serious column of writers writing what it means to write right. The drive to write, says Richard Ford, is powerful for writers. Sometimes, though, it works better if you don't. Bonnie Burnard has won the Giller, Canada's top literary prize with her story of a hardware store owner and his family. Turmoil at new magazine has staffers coming and going.
Insiders dish the dirt.
Dissecting the thinking behind this year's Booker Prize for literature. Critic tries to work up a good mad about St. Martin's Press pulling George W bio last week, but finds he can't. It's business as usual in the publishing world. How the Bush book incident went down.