The Trad visits Chartwell Booksellers.

Aaron Gilbreath profiles Dex Romweber at Oxford American.

Go ahead and feel free to use J.D. Salinger’s image and name all you’d like.

Michiko Kakutani reviews A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers at the New York Times.

Robert Fay’s “The Terrible Affliction of Beauty” is your lunchtime read.

HBO feels bad about impaling President Bush.

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