-Dan Brown: not a plagiarist, but still a possible murderer...of fiction! (via BBC News)

-TC Boyle's story "Balto" will appear in the upcoming Best American Short Stories 2007 (via The Paris Review)

-GalleyCat has your first glimpse of the upcoming Harry Potter cover (via GalleyCat)

-Read a review of Cormac McCarthy's The Road (via PopMatters)

-NYC: Check out Jonathan Lethem, George Saunders, and The Night Time at Housing Works Used Book Cafe this Friday 3/30 (via New York magazine)

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-Literary heavyweights criticize EU's failure to end Darfur violence (The Independent via Critical Mass)

-"For $10,000 to $15,000, you, too, can be a best-selling author." (via Wall Street Journal)

-Top authors pick their favorite books of all time (via Washington Post)

-China pirates around 500 million books per year (via Conversational Reading) 

-Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named Sue": just as good as a short story (via The Onion's AV Club)

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-Nice to know that Posh Spice is one of England's bestselling authors. And that she can read. (via Gawker)

-Andre Agassi memoir deal in the works (via GalleyCat)

-Jon Bon Jovi and Amy Grant + BookExpo America = ultimate synergy! (via GalleyCat) 

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-Lance Bass pens memoir. The title? Out of Sync. No, I'm not making that up. (via People)

*Update: Get his ex's memoir from Zooba. I'm not making that up, either!

-The Decemberists frontman and former bookseller Colin Meloy will judge Tournament of Books. (via Pitchfork Media)

-Author Chuck Klosterman reveals what's on his playlist. (via The Onion's AV Club)

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-Three Rivers Press (Random House) inks deal for biography of troubled indie rock artist Cat Power (via Publishers Marketplace)

-Hollywood glamorizes Jane Austen in the upcoming film Becoming Jane (via Bookninja)

-Columbia University's writing seminar spawns book deals (via NPR) 

-Salon advises a novelist who fears getting published (Salon via Mediabistro)

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The Onion's AV club talks pop music with Adverbs author Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket. The undercover "accomplished accordionist" has great taste! Check out this Last.fm station based on one of his new fave artists, indie rock crooner José González.

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