Ron Hogan reports from the Rebel Bookseller panel at Greenlight last Friday, with choice quotes from WORD’s Christine Onorati and Melville House’s Denis Loy Johnson, among others.

• The Guardian makes with some Booker-longlist predictions.

• NYC’s Posman Books is opening a Rockefeller Center location later this year.

• Charles McGrath on Ernest Shackelton’s whiskey. Contains the quote “Whiskey is the endgame,” which needs to be worked into a spy novel somehow.

• At Electric Literature, Nikita Nelin talks with Simon Van Booy.

• John Darnielle on R. Kelly’s “Ignition.”