Some book-related links:

• Sean Connery backs out of memoir contract (Scotsman.com)
• Will “Chinglish” outstrip English? (Wired)
• Amanda Foreman accused of “devaluing the biographer’s skill” after posing nude in magazine (Times Online)
• Book lover/garbage picker (The Globe and Mail)
• University of Michigan cuts ties with London-based publisher over Israel book (MLive.com)
• New Ottawa library gets funding plan (The Ottawa Citizen)
• Sci-fi writer Thomas Disch commits suicide (BoingBoing.net)
• Edgar Allen Poe’s cottage closed for renovations (CBC.ca)
• David Gilmour’s The Film Club reviewed in the NYT (The New York Times)