• A new Mississippi ad campaign features posters with pictures of William Faulkner and other writers from the state, and this message: “Yes we can read. Some of us can even write.” (Somewhat related: Robb Forman Dew’s recent commentary.)

• University presses increasingly combat shrinking markets by turning to print-on-demand.

• Wikipedia, the open-source encyclopedia, tightens its submission rules.

• Pacifica Radio marks the 35th anniversary of a four-and-a-half day radio reading of Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace. (Via Metafilter.)

• Julianne Moore has signed on to star in a film based on Alice Munro’s “Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage.”

• Anthony Lane reviews Brokeback Mountain (“comes fully alive as the chance for happiness dies”).

• “I didn’t like Nixon until Watergate.”