#linkology

“Kobo has struck a deal to sell e-books and its line of e-readers through independent U.S. booksellers”

Google bows out of this racket, Kobo steps in. This would be a good chance for indie bookstores to set-up little Kobo kiosks to sell devices and walk customers through the process of buying ebooks through their local indie.

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Federman suggests Union Square Café as a modern-day haunt for literary agents and authors, while Michael’s in Midtown has long been a favorite for publishing-world honchos. The perennially hip Momofuku restaurant empire—which last year launched its own food-lit magazine, Lucky Peach, in conjunction with McSweeney’s—now hosts a series of lunchtime discussions at its Midtown outpost, Ma Peche.

A brief history of the literary lunch.

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A comprehensive investigation into Bradbury’s life and career resulted in a report that included his resume, background and “subversive information,” which was included in the FBI’s “Communist Infiltration of the Radio-Television Industry” file.

Really, if you weren’t thought a Communist by the FBI in the 1950s, you were doing it wrong.

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The long novel is still in the earliest stages, but I’m thinking of it as “Anna Karenina” in Queens.