“The murder of Leo Tolstoy: A forensic investigation” at Harpers.

• Ben Greenman discusses Sly and the Family Stone, and their brief flirtation with being French.

• Eerie Von from Samhain and Danzig has a book of photography out.

• You can buy fake cat poop at the Ernest Hemingway museum.

• The New Yorker gives us a preview of albums coming out in 2010.

• A new decade just started and already we are talking about the publishing industry in 2020.

• A book on Harry Smith!