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The LA Times keeps current on the latest diet books and profiles, Susan B. Roberts and Betty Kelly Sargent’s THE “I” DIET BOOK: USE YOUR INSTINCTS TO LOSE WEIGHT — AND KEEP IT OFF — WITHOUT FEELING HUNGRY.

‘Tis the season for baseball books and Timothy M. Gay tosses one in - SATCH, DIZZY & RAPID ROBERT: THE WILD SAGA OF INTERRACIAL BASEBALL BEFORE JACKIE ROBINSON.

And Robert Perkinson gives us the compelling history of Lone Star incarceration with TEXAS TOUGH: THE RISE OF AMERICA’S PRISON EMPIRE.

Fonts. Obsessed? Couldn’t care less? Either way, they affect the way that you feel about what you’re reading. They’re an added layer of communication that we are often unaware of.

Mary Jane McKay looks at the global influence of Irish literature. (CBS News)

Carolyn Kellogg recaps the National Book Critics Circle awards. (LATimes)

Ian McEwan stands his ground in the face of accusations that criticism of Muslims is necessarily racism. (Telegraph)

Catch up on upcoming notable literary releases and events. (The Independent)

John Mullan surveys some of literature’s best men writing as women. (The Guardian)

R.I.P. Gerald Flamm, reporter and author. (San Francisco Chronicle)

“On this day in 1891, Henrik Ibsen’s Ghosts premiered in London, an event so “controversial and epoch-making,” says biographer Michael Meyer, that it is now regarded as “one of the most famous of theatrical occasions.” Theater historians report that the furor made Ibsen “a household word even among those Englishmen who never went to the theatre or opened a book.”" (Today in Literature)

-Helen Dunmore

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Pomona College’s reviewing body wrangles Jodi Picoult’s HOUSE RULES.

Yahoo Sports brings up Peter Morris’ BUT DIDN’T WE HAVE FUN? AN INFORMAL HISTORY OF BASEBALL’S PIONEER ERA, 1843-1870.

Paperback Row from The New York Times lets us in on a look of what’s coming out in softcover.

Watch our LiveRead video of horror writer Ramsey Campbell reading an extract from his short story, “Laid Down”:

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)

-Rose Tremain

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LONELY HEARTS: THE SCREWBALL WORLD OF NATHANAEL WEST AND EILEEN MCKENNEY, by Marion Meade, gets the nod at The LA Times.

ANGELOLOGY, by Danielle Trussoni, is hailed ‘exquisite’.

Roger Rosenblatt gives us, MAKING TOAST: A FAMILY STORY, to good result.