The Seven Year Bitch author Jennifer Belle says writers should write what they want to write. (GalleyCat)

Steve Almond leads the charge in a “meditation on editors, ambition and angry dependence”. (The Rumpus)

Borders is shutting down its San Francisco operations. (San Francisco Examiner)

The Virginia Quarterly Review has temporarily closed its offices and canceled its winter issue after the suicide of Kevin Morrissey. (NYTimes)

Attention grammar police: June Casagrande gives fair warning about some changes in the new edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. (Glendale News Press)

Justin Peacock finds the that today’s great social novels are being written by crime authors. (The Daily Beast)

Matthew Pearl reports from the front lines of the “novel wars”. (Huffington Post)

M.A. Orthofer offers some commentary on the relative editing skills of traditional publishers. (The Literary Saloon)

Carolyn Kellogg explores whether a hit book means a hit movie. (Jacket Copy)

Scott Butki chats it up with Body Work author Sara Paretsky. (seattlepi.com)

What’s the best position for reading in bed? (Reading Copy Book Blog)

Alison Flood adds her perspective. (Guardian Books Blog)

Georgie Williamson writes in defense of “old-world critics”. (The Australian)

“On this day in 1939 Germany invaded Poland, starting WWII. This gave moment to W. H. Auden’s “September 1, 1939,” one of his most famous poems, and one of many attempts to figure how “the windiest militant trash” could have us all “Lost in a haunted wood.” On this day two years later, the yellow star was made obligatory for Jews in Germany; and this day three years after would be Anne Frank’s last before learning her fate: the last train bound out of Holland for Auschwitz.” (Today in Literature)

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