Sundry links from around the Web:

• Borders lays off 310, closes Tennessee distribution centre
• Salon publishes new Yann Martel story about a man who spends the night in a septic tank
• Unauthorized Catcher in the Rye sequel banned in Canada and U.S., available everywhere else
• “Man of letters” and former TLS editor John Gross dies at 75
• Tickets for the Authors at Habourfront Centre’s Forest of Reading fest go on sale today