Smart Bitches, Trashy Books is holding a Photoshop cover contest in honour of Simon Kernick, the author now known to some unwary shoppers as "Dan Brown". The week's other cover controversy is probably less amenable to image-manipulation competitions, at least within the bounds of taste.
• Crockatt and Powell on how some classics got to be so expensive.
• In praise of AJ Liebling, plus extra bonus praise.
• The possibly providential firing of Jeffrey Eugenides.
• The gawky grammatical clarifications of David Foster Wallace.
• Walter Cronkite interviews Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas, while he was still a student journalist.
