The National Book Critics Circle posts their list of finalists for its 2011 honors. (bookcritics.org)

The plot thickens: Salman Rushdie accuses the police of inventing the threats against him to keep him from the Jaipur Literary Festival. (The Daily Beast)

A look at the pending Costa Awards and its current shortlist via (The Guardian)

By today’s standard, Robert Burns might have been a terrorist. (The Scotsman)

Somebody’s buying a lot of ebooks, but nearly a quarter of the Christmas Kindle-gifted say they haven’t turned the thing on yet. (pocket-lint.com)

3M holds court at The American Library Association’s Mid-Winter event to showcase its Cloud Library for ebooks. (Yahoo Business)

While the ALA powers schedule a session with half of The Big Six to chew through more tangles in ebook lending policy. (Library Journal)

The Writers Guild is set to honor achievement in video game writing. (GalleyCat)

Richard Ketchum, author and editor, dead at 89. RIP. (The New York Times)

“On this day, fifteen years apart, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible (1953) and Thornton Wilder’s Our Town (1938) premiered. Although both were poorly reviewed to start, The Crucible would win a Tony and Our Town a Pulitzer; and both would become not only classics of American theater, but classic, opposite statements on the idea of community living…” (Today In Literature)

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