Here are some news stories that impressed me over the weekend:

• On his blog, author Paul Collins highlights a Boston Globe feature on Stephen Puleo and his book about the Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919, Dark Tide. It's an awesome story—how can you not love the tale of a "15-foot-high wave of molasses that spilled from a North End storage tank, leaving death and devastation in its suffocating wake"—but, as Collins points out, it's even more remarkable that the Globe gave it some space. "Books coverage typically has the shelf life of a bottle of milk," Collins observes. "It's rare for a paper to cover a book that has been out for much more than a month—two, at most, if the author's big. Puelo's book has been out for over two years now..."

• Sunday's Washington Post profile of James Yee, the Army chaplain falsely accused of espionage and terrorism during his service at Guantanamo Bay, opens with a forceful account of the day the charges against him drove his wife to the brink of suicide. After two years of silence, Yee finally tells his story in the freshly published For God and Country. He's in the midst of a press tour, presumably hampered somewhat by his inclusion on the government's "no-fly" list.

• We heard about it last Friday, now here it is: Stephen Beachy's proposition that JT Leroy doesn't exist. Well, somebody's been recommending good books to me via email for the last year...UPDATE: As Dana has observed, Leroy (or should that be "Leroy"?) has displayed a slippery connection to reality in the past.)