- Lucky Sarah got to interview NBA finalist Richard Powers. The award will be announced tonight around 10 o’clock.
- Reviews of Thomas Pynchon’s mammoth Against the Day are beginning to trickle in at the Complete Review, Scott Mclemee’s Inside Higher Ed column, Time, and the Boston Phoenix.
- The latest scandal on litblogs: free books. Some say that a disclaimer should be made for reviews of books which were sent free from a publisher. Others claim conspiracy. For the record, almost all of the books I review her I didn’t buy or check out of the library. As a buyer at a bookstore, I get anywhere from 25 to 50 books a week sent to my office. But I only read and review what I want. Let the opinions fly.