Uptown Literati

Girl gone mild in Carlene Bauer’s Not That Kind of Girl: “If life maneuvers received scores for technical difficulty, Bauer would be competing for gold.” [via Daily Beast]

Flash fiction at your fingertips: give it a whirl at NameYourTale.com. [via GalleyCat]

For one month, from July 4 to August 4, access 2 [...]

Surely women’s magazines can come up with better reading material than the same article over and over and over again, right? Right? [via Jezebel]

Katharine Donelson works her way through Proust’s In Search of Lost Time (aka Remembrance of Things Past), 50 pages at a time. [via Blog Critic]

The Long List for [...]

A discussion on race and cover art, and publisher’s decisions based on apparent market preference. [via Justine Larbalestier]

Michael Chabon: skeptical. [via Bookslut]

Meet Joshua Henkin, the author who joined 175 book clubs. [via Three Guys One Book]

Toronto’s Fringe Festival is a celebration of drama. [via The Millions]

Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Virgin Suicides celebrates [...]

Whether you’re a fan or not, there’s no denying the popularity of film adaptations of beloved books. Here’s a list of several. [via Booktender]

A list of must-reads to prepare yourself for Dan Brown’s Lost Symbol, coming out later this year. [via Libraryland Roundup]

Apparently publishers are afraid of Dan Brown’s popularity: [...]

John Christie offers the most comprehensive list of book-related beer names ever compiled. [via Brews & Books]

Mark Sarvas completes his interview series with Joseph O’Neill, author of Netherland. [via Mark Sarvas]

When forming the indie band Harry and the Potters, Joe and Paul DeGeorge were probably not aware that [...]

Since one lifetime’s all you’ve got, and you probably don’t want to spend all of it reading the books on today’s Must-Read lists, here’s a new list for you: books that should be fired from the canon. [via The Second Pass]

Playwright, author, and doctor Anton Chekhov lived a fascinating, if [...]

Apparently reading our president’s books is a threat to national security. [via Read Street]

Attention all geeks-in-training: Click here to learn how to geek out about P. G. Wodehouse. [via A.V. Club]

“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity,/ When I give I give my pants.” ~ Walt Whitman [...]

And the drama continues: An Open Letter to [reviewer] Roberta Silman re: The Day Alice Hoffman Went Crazypants. [via Hipster Book Club]

Rob Walker’s latest project puts a literary spin on eBay selling. [via Core 77]

A challenge to submit contenders for the title of “The Most Awesomely Bad SFF Cover in the World.” [...]

Test your wits! Can you distinguish between the writing of Joseph Conrad and Lauren Conrad? [via The Daily Beast]

Koji Suzuki, the Tokyo-based writer and creator of the horror novels The Ring, among others, brings us a new publishing medium: toilet paper. [via The Moment]

Silver Jews frontman David Berman has released [...]

Considering sex in recent Harry Potter movies… and whether such behavior is warranted or even desired. [via Entertainment Weekly]

Ever come across a particularly outdated title in your local library, and wonder who’s keeping an eye on the collection? Enter Mary and Holly. [via Awful Library Books]

If Internet jargon is a bit [...]