Today’s “Salinger sequel” roundup: Michelle Richmond looks back at Salinger’s tenacious defense of his properties; Dave Rosenthal asks, “Who owns Holden Caulfield?”; U.S. distributor SCB gets named in the lawsuit; Courthouse News Service breaks down the particulars of the legal action so far.

Up for an ‘Infinite Summer’? Endurance bibliophiles plan to spend the dog days of summer immersed in David Foster Wallace’s masterpiece, Infinite Jest. The Guardian Book Blog has more.

Slam poetry “inventor” Marc Kelly Smith worries that the art form may be “going soft.”

The Observer has a bizarre story about Paul Auster’s Timbuktu and how it became a children’s book without the author knowing and/or remembering that it happened.

Publishers turn to the hard-learned lessons of digital music to find profits and combat piracy.

“Away We Go”, the new film co-written by Dave Eggers and his novelist wife Vendela Vida, is getting a lot of attention in advance of its opening this Friday: Jed P. Cohen focuses on how the project came together; Melissa Silverstein interviews Vida; the Village Voice takes pot shots at Eggers.

Amazon announces that the Kindle DX will begin shipping on June 10th.

Bookseller.com has the full list of prizes given out at this week’s British Book Industry Awards.

Canada’s literary elite gear up for tonight’s Griffin Poetry Prize ceremony.

The Examiner’s Stephanie Giancola chats it up with romance novelist Sara Humphreys.

Today in Literature: On this day in 1964, T.S. Eliot dined with Groucho Marx and his wife, after years of correspondence.

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