* Team Dollar Bill talks to Ashley Holt. I can't remember if I linked to this Jason Heller talk with Jeffrey Brown yet, but what the hell? It's sure to be good enough that I can link to it twice.
* since it's already out I can't really put it in the publishing news column, but this Willard Mullin book has a lot of beautiful cartooning in it. It does seem a bit odd that with the decline of the National Pastime in terms of seizing the widespread, public imagination, we're at a stage where a bunch of cartoons about baseball seems as esoteric as, I don't know, all those car-culture cartoons of the '60s seemed by the mid-1990s.