Bites: Phone Booth Libraries, The Cows that Killed Jane Austen, Cormac McCarthy to Sell the Remains of His Writing Career, A Remnick Interview, and more

You know how England has much nicer looking phone booths than we do?  Well it’d naturally be a shame to let those go to waste.  In Somerset, a lending library!

Lit.

• Jane Austen may have died from a strain of TB caught from cows.
• Jonathan Littell won Literary Review‘s Bad Sex in Fiction prize.
• Ugh, England’s got us beat all over the place today.  Margaret Atwood’s new cover redesigns from Virago are sweet.
• Stendhal enters the digital age.
• Cormac McCarthy to auction off his typewriter.  Does that mean he’ll stop writing?

The Digital Age

• Feeling indulgent?  Well, every single digital book on Ravenous Romance, a new(ish) digital romance press, is 99 cents today!  Spluuuuurge.
• David Remnick does not believe the printed will be replaced.

Etc.

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