Today’s book news:
- Michiko Kakutani likes new Franzen novel, calls it “galvanic”
- Franzen slams author videos in new author video
- Archie wants to be a playah
- New, more with-it Sony Reader due “soon”
- Ian Rankin admits to using words he didn’t understand in debut novel
- Vox Populism proposes the International Ten-Year Novel Writing Contest