Washington Post website publishes novel

The Washington Post's website has launched an interesting experiment by publishing fiction. It is serialising the debut novel of one of its business reporters, David Hilzenrath. The entire text of Jezebel's Tomb, a thriller about a journalist who tries to track down a mysterious 2,000-year-old document (shades of The Da Vinci Code), will be carried in bi-weekly instalments. Here's the first one. The paper's online executive editor Jim Brady, who describes the move as an "intriguing notion", says advertising income for the pages will be split between the paper and Hilzenrath. (Via Washington Post)