Two interesting articles that seem to capture some of what's new, good, bad and weird in literature.

What's a bibliography doing in a novel? Love it or hate it? An exploration here in the Times. In my day job, I work for a scientific journal and on a related tangent, it's not uncommon for authors to be asked to provide permission from the people they acknowledge in their papers. I wonder how this would work for fiction.

And Paul collins at Slate investigates whether Google Book Search is going to bust wide open previously secret plagiarists.