- Pearl Cleage explains why she agreed to read in the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum after “many years of refusing to darken its doorway out of respect for my ancestors who were held in bondage one state over.” (Mitchell wrote Gone With the Wind.)
- Samuel Beckett was a generous soul. (Via Books, Inq.)
- John Barlow thinks “hardbacks are a disaster for the emerging writer.” (I tend to agree, but then, having no personal experience, I’m talking out of my ass.)
- Josh Benton on Calvin Trillin’s recollections of his wife, Alice.
- The film based on Harry Crews’ The Hawk is Dying will have its European premiere at Cannes in May.
- How to make a secret hollow book. (Via Crabwalk.)