⇒Jessica Seinfeld wrote a cookbook, and people thought it reminded them of something. In his own subliminally misanthropic way, her husband tried to make things better.

⇒After raking in the big bucks on Deathly Hallows, J.K. Rowling outed Dumbledore, and not everyone took the news well.

⇒I started a brief kerfuffle over where the corpse in Alice Sebold's novel went and who noticed.

⇒When Porochista Khakapour got a bad review from Carolyn See, she had plenty to say about it.

⇒Barnes & Noble launched a book review website, which even now is running suggestions for the best books of 2007, including some from former GalleyCat Sarah Weinman.