Publishers Weekly reports that Random House has released the cover for Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol and “fuels the waiting game” by “slowly releasing tidbits,” hinting at “an unseen world of mysticism, secret societies, and hidden locations, with a stunning twist that long predates America.” The Guardian Book Blog’s Michelle Pauli is properly enthused… except, well, as she points out, The Guardian reported that the book would be set in Washington and involve the Freemasons… 5 years ago.

Kindle patents suggest that part of the enjoyment of a good eBook might one day include “advertisements throughout the e-books, from the beginning to the end, between chapters or following every 10 pages, as well as in the margins.”

Playboy Magazine scoops up the first serial rights to Vladimir Nabokov’s unfinished novella, The Original of Laura.

Novelist Ron Carlson talks about his writing methods.

The Washington Post looks back at the life and works of Vassily Aksyonov.

USA Today’s Dan Friedell chats it up with Lance Armstrong biographer John Wilcockson.

Women writers take six out of the nine Bessie Head Awards in Botswana.

Shirley Dent has more on the Codex Sinaiticus and what it could mean for scholarship.

Today in Literature: On this day in 1923, Virginia Woolf completed the typesetting of the first English edition of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.

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