"I no longer associate the possession of vast quantities of books with intelligence, discernment or culture – sometimes the owner is a maniac or even a book dealer." Nigel Burwood of Bookride (a book dealer himself) considers an interior designer's guide to personal libraries.
• Neil Gaiman's journey into the cultural mainstream continues with a lengthy, if also gently sniffy, profile in the New Yorker; it begins with something I didn't know about Coraline's nastier Victorian ancestors.
• Someone has started a company selling a punctuation mark for sarcasm. Haven't heard whether it's bringing in much money, but it's certainly generating plenty of lessons in how to do sarcasm without specialised punctuation.
• Writing through the pain barrier.
