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Jul 14, 2011 @ 4:00:00 am

Margaret Drabble

Will the Bancroft family hold a Eliot Spitzer-style press conference expressing regret for selling the Wall Street Journal to Rupert Murdoch?

"It’s sad, but our feud is beyond repair": Margaret Drabble talks about a lifetime of enmity with her sister A. S. Byatt.

Members of the National Book Critics Circle are naming their favorite comic novels, which include Charles Portis’s Masters of Atlantis, Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds, and Kingsley Amis’s Lucky Jim (duh). Our favorite selection: George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody.

Google has announced its first e-reader, the iRiver Story HD, which reportedly looks a lot like a Kindle. There’s at least one big difference: The iRiver will allow you to buy from Google's e-bookstore.

Stoya, the adult-movie star who raved about Blake Butler’s novel This Is No Year, has started a book club.

Vogue editor Anna Wintour is reportedly gearing up to write her memoir—or at least to find someone else to write it.