Some book-related links:

• David Mamet to direct Anne Frank film for Disney (NB: the Guardian‘s headline is “David Mamet to tackle Anne Frank,” which is just not nice)
• Anna Porter on her appearance at New York’s 92nd St. Y
• Jay-Z, Bob Costas, and Warren Buffet “ book blurbs often make for strange bedfellows
• The top ten cafés in which to write a novel
• George Jonas wonders, are books seasonal?
• What can books tell us about banks?
• When it comes to sci-fi, it’s all about the quantum flux