Lunchtime links.

  • The 2013 Impac longlist has been announced.
  • Little Free Libraries have been banned—or, rather, the Village Board has decided to enforce the rule against structures on residents' front lawns—in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin: "Launer said he had concerns that multiple Little Free Libraries would start sprouting up on each block, that they would grow to increasingly larger sizes or become obnoxious in their design."
  • Kickstarter project: This Day in Fiction calendar.
  • How to: Modify a Barbie into a Weeping Angel.
  • Amazon's 2012 Best Teen Books of the Year.
  • The National Book Awards are getting sexier. Or something: "On the table are proposals like expanding the judging pool beyond just writers who judge in their own genre to include well-known cultural figures of all types, and limiting for the first time who may submit award entries."
  • Phillip Pullman on the Brothers Grimm: "One thing that did strike me was how different these stories are from novels. You almost never see an adverb—"he said ruefully"—anything like that. That doesn't happen. You just get what he said, what she did, that absolutely bald statement. And I like that."
  • Trailer for World War Z:

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