Sundry links from around the Web:

• Toronto novelist Stephen Marche takes on Snooki in the National Post
• Canadian Manda Group, the Canadian sales agent for Guinness World Records, sets a new record for duct-taping a person to a wall
• Canada’s latest online literary journal, The Winnipeg Review, launches Bad Sex in Winnipeg writing contest
• Who knew? Newfoundland novelist Kenneth J. Harvey is also a book designer
• Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann considers shooting The Great Gatsby in 3D
• Salon books columnist Laura Miller weighs in on Arizona shooter Jared Loughner’s book list. And poet Jacob McArthur Mooney does the same at the Vox Populism blog