Sundry links from around the Web:

• Fredric Jameson writes in the London Review of Books that Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood gives him the feeling of “syrupy nausea” “ in a good way
• The New York Times courageously stands up to the embargo on Ted Kennedy’s memoir
• A new David Mitchell story appears in the Guardian, just as an academic conference on the British author’s work gets underway
• Authors deserve a much bigger cut of royalties, argues U.S. novelist M.J. Rose; not so fast, HarperStudio’s Robert Miller retorts
• Carver, uncut