This post was written by Friday guest blogger Annie Reid.

Victor Keegan looks at the future of self-publishing.

 

The White Hart, a pub featured in the works of Thomas Hardy, is slated for demolition.

 

Book of the Day appreciates Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret and notices that Margaret’s menstrual technology has been updated to keep up with the times. (Via Gwenda Bond.)

 

Are publishers stifling young novelists with too large advances and too much pressure?

 

Ann Hulbert reviews Maile Meloy’s new novel, in which her first novel becomes a sort of character in its own right.