GalleyCatnip: Bruce Springsteen’s $10 Million Advance?

borntorun.jpgAs the weekend glimmers like the light at the end of a five-day-long tunnel, here is your daily dose of quick links and publishing catnip.

In a WowoWow interview, author Lorrie Moore confesses: “I do know a lot of writers are watching musicians and the way they’ve bypassed the sinking music industry and struck out on their own.”

Entertainment Weekly landed an excerpt from “Nightlight,” a Twilight parody.

In gorgeous graphs, web comic xkcd maps out character interactions from famous literary adaptations.

The new issue of McSweeney’s pays homage to newspapers with “huge and luxurious broadsheet” and a massive book section.

The NY Post thinks legendary rock star Bruce Springsteen could earn up to $10 million for his rumored autobiography.

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