Afternoon Bites: Molly Gaudry, Ann Powers, World Book Night, and more

Ann Powers looks at Spin‘s experiment in 140-character record reviews, and reverse-engineers two full-length reviews from it. Shades of Christopher Orr’s review of 21 based only on the preview…

• Molly Gaudry on work from Jeanne Winterson and Mary Ruefle.

• Irvine Welsh has written Skagboys, a prequel to Trainspotting.

• If you’re looking for an excellent reading in northern Brooklyn tomorrow, you have two outstanding options: Largehearted Boy’s tenth anniversary at WORD (with Emma Straub and Jennifer Gilmore) and the Caryn Rose/Rosie Schaap combo at Pete’s Candy Store.

• Conde Nast Traveler also has some nice things to say about WORD.

• If you’re an emerging writer based in New York City, you may want to look at this fellowship at the Center for Fiction.

• The lineup for this year’s EMP Pop Conference, held at NYU from March 22nd to the 25th, has been announced.

• The deadline to help distribute free books as part of World Book Night is rapidly approaching.

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