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In the year's strangest literary twist, Oprah managed to get the reclusive Cormac McCarthy to go on her show and discuss his new novel.

From the noir-inspired No Country for Old Men to the Biblical Blood Meridian, this writer has burned his writing in my brain forever. I was at work when Oprah interviewed him, but Ed Park live-blogged the whole thing.

Journerdism reports on a crazy new development in the difficult relationship between print outlets and online communities. The AP is working hard with a web company to build software to track their content--anywhere web writers reprint it.

Bookdwarf gets hooked up. I'm re-reading Zuckerman Bound this summer, and I was very jealous to read this: "You want to look your best when you meet Philip Roth. That’s right, Philip Roth. I was lucky enough to be part of a small group of about 40 people at a party celebrating his upcoming Fall Book Exit Ghost. We met at Cafe Gray in the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle."

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