If it rains one more day, I will scream! There are blueberries rotting on the bushes! Okay, calm down… breathe deep. There has to be a way to solve this… Think, dammit, THINK! … Wait! I have it! I’ll just get wet! Crazy, I know, but crazy like a FOX!

• Barnes and Noble avoids Bookninja curse of genital warts on the lips of its executive class by refusing to sell OJ’s book… Borders execs looking to reserve appointments with plastic surgeons in advance
• Frightening statistics: Writing tops poll of ideal jobs… Scientists and statisticians thrilled with new data gathered on “romatic ideals” and “naiveté” (Of course, I suppose this result reflects Britain’s more intellectual culture, at least as opposed to our own. I was always surprised, back when I was teaching, to hear students respond to the question, “Where would you most like to work?” with, “In business.” Business? Like, anything? You want to work in an abstract category?) Don’t give up your dayjob, says John Crace
• In related news, 1 in 4 Americans did not read a book at all last year
• New Bradbury leads to Bradbury profile
• Harper Lee honoured by Alabama
• Hospital has own press
• Libraries not dying — this is good news for lovers of hot librarians who would otherwise be forced into work as cubicle organizers
• Rankin says JK not writing crime novel (Rankin’s been the centre of some scandal this summer… some think this is part of a publicity plan)
• Armistead Maupin and SF