Stanley Fish says that Random House’s deep sixing of “The Jewel of Medina” in order to avoid offending Muslims is not censorship, as Salman Rushdie asserted. Edward Champion tells us why Fish is wrong.
Check out a whole database of Haruki Murakami book covers from around the world. (via Bookninja).
Elizabeth Baines recalls the trials and travails of gathering blurbs.
I could think of a lot of better ways to use $133,000 than to buy a robot librarian that only has access to 500 books.
As a huge fan of Murakami, I appreciate the link to the database.