As another Monday winds down, here are some odds and ends from the day's publishing news...

Next week, Mary Gaitskill, Eric Bogosian, John Turturro, and others will read from stories written by inmates for PEN's Prison Writing Program.

Author Stephen Fry defended Twitter and the Internets in a video interview about a generation of kids growing up online.

In a True Slant interview about "Eating Animals," Jonathan Safran Foer talked about his move from vegetarianism to a vegan lifestyle: "my basic stance on the issue is, I'd say, forgiving--but still quite firm. I am transitioning to veganism, and I don't like, run home and eat 1,000 eggs or something."

Paul Auster talked about a time when all aspiring poets wanted to start their own magazines.

Beating the annual listmakers by a month, Amazon.com unveiled the Best Books of 2009.