Some book-related links:

• George Steiner says narrative fiction’s days are numbered (The Guardian)
• Parisian booksellers leave city for picturesque town “ there’s a charming and quirky romantic comedy just waiting to be written here (Deutsche Welle)
• Work started on Bush Presidential Library, cheap jokes (The New York Times)
• Steve Gerber, creator of Howard the Duck, dies at 60 (Slate)
• Father and son both pen memoirs about son’s meth addiction (Los Angeles Times)
• Is Abebooks a wolf in sheep’s clothing? (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)