#IWishICouldMeet, the popular Twitter hash tag, gets a literary twist as readers tell the LA Times which characters and authors they would love to meet #IRL. (And for the record, #ReuvenMalter.)

Paul Muldoon—poet, professor, Poetry Society macher, New Yorkereditor, librettist, and Rackett guitarist—lists his favorite rock books.

This list of best sellers from around the world is fascinating and shaming.

In fact, next, the blogger reading one hundred years of best sellers might want to tackle the Indonesian list.

“The second half of the nineteenth century saw the rise of amateur press associations (ASAs)—small groups of writers, often without professional training, who would produce individual articles, pamphlets, or magazines mailed to all other members of the association; in other words, a progenitor of subscription-based blogging, and yet another example of primitive versions of modern social media.”