This morning, I started recording Bill Clinton's Back to Work for the Nashville Talking Library. It's not the happiest of reads so far (I'm in the middle of chapter 2, which includes an analysis of what went wrong in the 2010 elections), but better that than the Glenn Beck tome that showed up on the to-claim shelf this morning.

USA Today recently reported on a signing Clinton participated in last week. As a former bookseller, I adore this paragraph:

[Village Bookstore owner] Solomon's favorite moment came when the former president noticed a young girl playing with books by pushing them back on the shelves. "He said to her, 'You know, in bookstores and libraries, they like to line up the books in the front of the shelves, so let's try doing that,' and they did."

In personal book news, the Kindle edition of 140 and Counting (an anthology that includes two tweet-sized pieces of mine) went live yesterday. Yay!

One of the pieces was originally published in microcosms, which is discussed in this interview of its editor, Stephen M. Wilson. (I am amused by the mention of the contributor who told him she was going to spend her payment on beer. You might be acquainted with her. ;-) )