A few more links for the afternoon:

• I don’t know how I’m supposed to vote for just one blog in the Independent Book Blogger Awards. At least it’s a great place to find new blogs to follow!
• This letter from Keith Richards to his aunt is both adorable and filled with hip 60s Englishness.
• Should academia be the “day job” path for writers? (My opinion: teaching is an entirely different skill than writing. Don’t teach unless you actually enjoy it.)
• A close look at the literary merits of Philip Pullman’s The Golden Compass.