No Waiting

From Robert Scoble's Flickr photostream come these photos of the "world's largest bookstore," by volume. It's in Shenzen, China, just north of Hong Kong.M&Q may not be the world's largest bookstore, but at least we have chairs.--David E

Books on the Desktop

Marquand Books--they design books for museums, galleries, architects, and the like--have put out some desktop images, so hoi polloi like us can get a taste of the high life.There are six designs here.--David E

Name That Author

Critical Mass, the blog of the National Book Critics Circle, is running a contest for the next week or so. They're posting excerpts of conversations with NBCC Award winners and finalists which have appeared in the Paris Review's "Writers at Work" series. If you can correctly identify, you could win a complete set of the … Continue reading Name That Author