Take a trip back through your childhood with this slideshow of 10 of the best heroes from children’s fiction. (The Guardian)

Jeff Rivera profiles literary agent Michael Bourret. (GalleyCat)

John Grisham’s first novel, A Time to Kill, to be adapted for the stage. (AP)

Heather Struck chats it up with novelist Jonathan Ames. (Forbes)

Boyd Tonkin surveys the field on the long-list for this year’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize. (The Independent)

Vit Wagner looks toward the April 12 announcement of the Commonwealth Writers Prize winners. (thestar.com)

Jason Boog rounds up the results of last night’s National Book Critics Circle awards ceremony. (GalleyCat)

R.I.P. Miguel Delibes, acclaimed Spanish novelist. (AP)

R.I.P. Julia Urquidi, Mario Vargas Llosa’s “Aunt Julia.” (Reuters)

“On this day in 1901 Andrew Carnegie offered New York City $5.2 million for the construction of 65 branch libraries. Of the 56.5 million given by Carnegie for over 2500 libraries in a dozen countries, this was his largest single grant, part of a wider attempt to gainsay those who attacked his “Gospel of Wealth” and to live up to his famous dictum: “The man who dies thus rich, dies disgraced.”" (Today in Literature)

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