The day’s links:
- Martin Amis wants his biography done his way, or else
- The National Post defends John Metcalf from André Alexis
- Jonathan Franzen’s follow-up to The Corrections succeeds “in a big way,” says PW
- Mindless hype department: watch the new Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows trailer
- W.S. Merwin named America’s new poet laureate
- Was Ben Franklin a boob? Or, “Hunger is the best pickle”