A Family Tree of Literary Fakers: Here follows a lineup of some of the past few decades’ most notorious fakes, with proof that in some cases, there are second acts in American lives. [NYT]
We are, literally, stereotypical: The British buy books by television personalities, Americans are obsessed with self-improvement, French choices are more highbrow, the Germans like holidays while the Japanese have more eclectic tastes. If it were not for Harry Potter, the survey by Amazon of global reading tastes would look like a very lazy exercise in national stereotyping. [Times]
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