No foolin’ here, just the straight dope:

• Borders escapes death-watch via refinancing
• Shocker! Amazon goes to agency model with HarperCollins and Simon & Schuster
• Non-shocker! Wolf Hall among Walter Scott Prize nominees
• Marcel Theroux, Kim Stanley Robinson among Arthur C. Clarke Award nominees
• Gore Vidal joins Roth and Grisham in fabricated interview scandal
• The New York Times gets all science-y about Why We Read Fiction