My god, a list of links!

Aside from the Update, when was the last time I pulled one of these them thar things together? I can’t even remember…

If you’ve arrived from the Christian Science Monitor’s article on book blogs, welcome, and hope you enjoy my musings on the world of crime fiction — although for the record, I only review books for the Sun, I don’t edit them.

While others are reporting on the NYT Magazine adding graphic novels to its pages, I’m more curious about who they’ve recruited for the serialized fiction portion of their new Funny Pages – Elmore Leonard.

UT Austin has opted for a “bookless” library, making everything available on its main campus only in digital format. I guess it’s the wave of the future but man, that kind of feels weird. Or else digital is the new microfiche. That would be cool.

Von Holtzbrinck, the parent company of publishers like St. Martin’s Press, FSG and Henry Holt, is getting in on the podcast revolution.

Why is Poisoned Pen Bookstore such a popular place? The Arizona Republic decides to find out and reports back the obvious — it’s a damn good bookstore.

Peter Robinson talks to Reuters Canada about technology, why British police procedurals differ from American ones, and what’s next for Inspector Banks.

Susanna Yager offers up her take on two recent Louisiana-set mysteries, one by James Lee Burke and the other by Roger Jon Ellory.

It’s so like publishing to put out a bunch of the same types of books at the same time, but which “modern manners” book will win out?

Victoria Barnsley, the lady in charge of HarperCollins UK, is profiled in the Telegraph.

Anthony Beevor leads a bunch of writers in trying to block HMV’s impending takeover of Ottakar’s. Hard to know if this will work, but if HMV doesn’t buy them, someone else will, alas…

J.R. Moehringer is getting a ton of attention for his memoir THE TENDER BAR (it was one of the hottest galleys at BEA, for example) and the machine kicks in over at the New York TImes, where Dinitia Smith interviews him.

Smith also interviewed S.E. Hinton, whose early books I loved loved loved as a kid and always wondered where she went. Her newest novel was out last year and she explains the gap in between.

James Meek, whose novel THE PEOPLE’S ACT OF LOVE was just longlisted for the Booker, picks his top ten Russian-set novels.

And finally, who was the real-life Oliver Twist? Many people assumed it was Dickens, but two researchers offer an alternate explanation.