Proof copies normally come with legalistic warnings not to quote them without checking against the final, published edition. But there there's this: "All to say that what you have here, while not exactly a first draft, is further away from the finished product than most advanced readers' editions are, and when you come across sentences you particularly don't like, keep in mind that I probably didn't like them either ... "
• Where the wild – and beautifully illustrated – things are, reached via the reliably interesting academic group blog Crooked Timber.
• Reviewing and the examiner's fallacy; not a flattering defence of critics, that, but a sort of defence none the less.
• Mary Beard supplies some classical material for a literary-quotes-on-the-Underground project. I reckon "Nunc est bibendum" is liable to get you a fine these days.
• The international bookselling operation of Kabul.
• The difficulties of fiction without mystery – relevant to the David Foster Wallace thing in the previous Linklog.
