Eight MILLION copies of new Harry book in stores…

Harry Potter encyclopedia suit-loser to publish book anyway

Time Out owners seeking time away

First edition Anne of Green Gables sold at auction (goes for extra because it contains an unabridged version of the Gilbert/horse beastiality scene where Anne whips them both with the crop, crying, “Faster! Faster!”)

LAT’s favourite books of 2008

le Clézio uses Nobel lecture (full text here) to combat “information poverty”… Dude, I don’t know about you, but my information cup runneth o’er most days…

I love the Onion. I mean deeply. They’ve been doing this sporadic series of detached, sterile news briefs about lame duck Bush being injured in horrific ways… a crocodile bites off his arm, he passes a three pound kidney stone, gets dragged behind his motorcade for blocks and he accidentally nails his eyelid to a wall in the Whitehouse, and always ends up resting comfortably in a hospital, recovering… It hit the point today where I just broke down laughing in public, almost in tears. It’s just so wonderfully subtle in how over-the-top it is. I’m enjoying being teased for how good the revenge-element of his discrediting feels.