Book News, In Brief

Via Times Online: "Splitting with Harry Potter was more painful than getting divorced, a tearful JK Rowling said today."
Hmn...perhaps that's why she keeps flirting with the idea of one last fling.

Via Io9: "The Tina Brown era was the heyday of science fiction at the New Yorker, which also published a decent amount of SF in the 80s. But the magazine has only published one SF story over the past decade, when the genre has supposedly been amassing tons of literary prestige. What's up with that? Here's our survey of the past 30 years' worth of science fiction at the New Yorker."

Via The Comics Reporter: "There are a lot of Marjane Satrapi interviews, but only one on The Colbert Report."