Afternoon Bites: Rebel Booksellers, Simon Van Booy, Posman Books, and more

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.”