Link-blog: Remixing Jane

An exciting new bookshop that shut down after three weeks (on purpose). A young man who helped a branch of the previous bookshop go out of business.

The logical (but not necessarily pleasant) conclusion of the “Jane Austen remix” trend.

A short history of the heavy-metal umlaut.

Imaginary movie posters for David Foster Wallace fans.

The continuing battle over the moral effect of young-adult fiction.

The new editor of the world’s most important newspaper, and her book about puppies.

Some polite corrections to the New Yorker swearing piece I linked last week.

Libraries dying that a golf course may live.