A consideration of William Maxwell’s The Château. . . . A friend of this site recommends a charming, recently republished children’s book. . . . An interview with an author who has done 16 book signings in D.C. airports over the last year and a half. (”I get fewer multiple sales. More people ignore me. More people don’t speak English.” He also discusses the upside.) . . . The Reading Experience isn’t overly thrilled with Andrew (A to Z), but still wonders why a bigger publisher wasn’t interested.