This Friday’s issue of TIME will feature a living novelist, Jonathan Franzen, on the cover for the first time in a decade. (NYTimes)

Sona Avakian chats it up with Allison Hoover Bartlett. (The Rumpus)

Fairmont Hotels will begin offering Kobo eReaders to their VIP guests. (Electronista)

Jacob Lambert imagines what a 4th grade book report on Portnoy’s Complaint might look like. (The Millions)

Jason Boog reports on rapper Jay-Z’s memoir deal with Random House imprint, Spiegel & Grau. (GalleyCat)

Philip Stone examines the windfall in sales of being on the Booker longlist. (theBookseller.com)

Kara Cutruzzula rounds up 20 of the best (and worst) celebrity book dedications. (The Daily Beast)

If you are what you eat, what was Mark Twain? (Courant.com)

Alison Flood reports on the collaboration of descendants of Tolkien and Dickens. (The Guardian)

Alison (busy one, ain’t she?) also takes time to flip the conversation about overrated writers and ask readers about their favorite underrated writers. (Guardian Books Blog)

Alan Bisbort talks about his cottage industry of Knowledge Cards. (LitKicks)

“On this day in 1827 William Blake died at the age of sixty-nine. Blake’s last years passed more or less as his others: in such poverty and obscurity that his burial in Bunhill Fields was largely unnoticed and on borrowed money — nineteen shillings for an unmarked grave, the body nine feet down, stacked on top of three others, and eventually followed by four more.” (Today in Literature)

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