Monday Miscellany, March 30th, 2009

Oh. My. Gosh — Jon Klassen’s lovely illustrations and designs for the movie adaptation of Coraline.

Schadenfreude — Literary agent Nathan Bransford on the “death” of the publishing business:

There are definitely problems with the business… But the industry is not stupid. Like any massive industry that is comprised of tens of thousands of individuals, it is a human institution with some institutional problems and weaknesses. But despite a reading public whose appetite for books is not growing at a particularly fast rate, despite tremendous competition from other media, we’re still here, and we’re doing way better than a lot of industries, including ones comprised of supposed geniuses and masters of the universe.

Japan’s 21st Century Cultural Ambassador — Roland Kelts, author of Japanamerica, profiles Haruki Murakami for 3:AM Magazine.

Isolating the Commonplace — The New York Times Book Review‘s photography editor Jeffery Scales discusses the William Eggleston photograph used illustrate Edmund White’s review of  Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned by (the improbably — yet charmingly — named) Wells Tower.

Give me Twitter or give me death — The Globe and Mail‘s Ian Brown possibly overthinks things…