• R.I.P., Mr. Shelby Foote.

• Female Iranian novelists.

• Richard Ford on Percy’s The Moviegoer.

• U.K. readers join U.S. counterparts in literary deprivation.

• Quick summary of Zoe Heller’s Alice Miller (The Drama of the Gifted Child) takedown. (7th item.)

• What’s in a [writer’s terrible] name?

• Idle author interviewed.

• Graham Greene evokes oppressive heat.

• Hemingway’s godson on Papa.

• Rehab novel-in-the-making, with your help. (Via #1.)

• A reflection on spam and that girl you once loved. (Via Stephen Elliott.)