⇒New York "Vulture" blogger Dan Kois hangs out on the set of All My Children to observe "a masterpiece of daytime advertainment" in the making, as journalists and Hyperion editor Gretchen Young wandered over to Pine Valley for the book party celebrating the publication of "Kendall Hart's" new novel, Charmed, which is coming out in our world at the same time as in AMC-land.

⇒What do you do when you find out you've got a bestselling nonfiction book in another country—that you didn't write? Robert Fisk investigates "his" biography of Saddam Hussein: "It took a very lenient view of the brutality of Saddam, it didn't seem to care much about the gassed civilians of Halabja—and it was full of the kind of purple passages which I loathe," Fisk says of the book ascribed to him, just before he hops on a plane to Cairo on a madcap quest to confront the book's true author. (via Leon Neyfakh)