Edward Champion has good additional reporting on that author-censorship-at-readings story. My favourite anecdote in this line is one told by the poet Simon Armitage. Before one reading at a school, he tells other school groups, the head teacher warned him: "We don't hold with language here."
• "Who but a fictional character could be better qualified to review . . . well, new fiction? Isn't that the very essence of peer reviewing?" The journal that published a review of David Foster Wallace by one of the academics from Don DeLillo's White Noise offers a genial semi-confession.
• The Literary Saloon is cynical about reports of giant print-runs – and the timing of corrections to those reports.
• Thomas Pynchon's high-school photograph gets the imaginary-ageing treatment.
• Booker longlisted writer fights Wikipedia edit war by means of formal letter.
