Milan Kundera writes about the novel as its own distinct art form, in the essay “Getting Into the Soul of Things.”

Check out BAM’s new literary dinner series. Tickets are going fast.

Writer and humorist David Rakoff watches 28 Woody Allen movies in 21 days – and blogs about it.

Life on the Ledge: Reflections of a New York City Window Cleaner author, Ivor Hanson, will be interviewed by Leonard Lopate on WNYC on January 3rd at 1-1:20pm.

A credit card purchase of 2 books from the Akashic website will get you a 3rd book for free if you immediately email Akashic7[at]aol[cot]com with a choice that doesn’t exceed the price of either of the 2 books.

33 new Literature titles, including works from Orwell, Melville, Sontag, Kundera, and more at Labyrinth.

We love Haymarket books, and new from them are: Mark Steel’s Vive la Revolution and Paul D’Amato’s The Meaning of Marxism.

Karen Russell, Uzodinma Iweala, Steven Millhauser, Jonathan Franzen, Marisha Pessl, and Aura Rosenberg reviewed in the latest issue of Boldtype.

Download this bookfair voucher if you want Barnes & Noble at Astor Place to donate part of your Nov 17-19 purchases to NYWC.

National Novel Writing Month begins Nov 1st.