Alexandra Alter chats it up with Elif Batuman about her interesting debut novel, The Possessed—a “tongue-in-cheek account of her study of Russian literature.” (Wall Street Journal)

Kudos on 50 years to Phoenix Literary Magazine. (TNJN)

Canadian novelist and essayist Ralston Saul takes South Korea’s prestigious Manhae Grand Prize for Literature. (The Globe and Mail)

Better late than never: Mark Sanderson’s weekly roundup of tidbits in “Literary Life”. (Telegraph)

M.A. Orthofer posts the shortlist for the Best Translated Book Award, the winner of which will be announced tonight. (The Literary Saloon)

Actress and musician Hilary Duff to pen a YA series for Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. (GalleyCat)

New York Times Book Review to be made available for eReaders. (Poynter Online)

Sam Jordison makes “the ecological case for ebooks.” (Guardian Books Blog)

Tom Roberge looks back at how Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke met and made history. (The Rumpus)

“On this day in 1948, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s wife, Zelda, and eight other patients were killed in a fire at the Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. This was eighteen years after Zelda’s first mental breakdown and eight years after Scott’s fatal heart attack — a world away from the Jazz Age they helped to define, and which helped to defeat them.” (Today in Literature)

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