A nation mourns José Saramago. (The Portugal News)

The Fremont (California) Unified school board once again puts the kibosh on the study of Dorothy Allison’s Bastard Out of Carolina by an Advanced Placement English class. (San Jose Mercury News)

Vanessa Thorpe examines a new UK literacy program inspired by Dave Eggers’ 826 Valencia projects. (Guardian Books Blog)

Steinbeck auction fails to excite bidders. (Salon)

Stephenie Meyer is “burned out on vampires…” (GalleyCat)

…Besides, as Arifa Akbar points out, today’s vampire is a “needy, neurotic wimp.” (The Independent)

Kids say the darndest things.. and they’re not far off the mark. (The Second Pass)

Speaking on writers getting paid to write, Elissa Bassist looks at the prickly issue of turning words into cold, hard cash. (The Rumpus)

The “White House gatecrashers” Michaele and Tareq Salahi are poised to cash in on their famewhoredom with a book. (FOXNews)

Clive Cussler’s “Sahara” courtroom crusade continues. (Reuters)

On this day in 1857 Charles Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal was published. Critics now regard it as the one of the most important and influential collections of 19th century poetry, but the newspapers of the day thought it full of “all the putresence of the human heart,” and the courts excised six poems found to be “in contempt of the laws which safeguard religion and morality.” (Today in Literature)

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