A quiet day here on the blog side of things, because of updates to both sections “above the fold” — an essay about Anthony Burgess’ Earthly Powers in the Backlist section, and a review of William Trevor’s latest in Circulating.

The blog will be more active tomorrow. In the meantime, I recently spoke (via e-mail) with Tim O’Shea, who runs the culture-interviews site Talking With Tim. He asked me about The Second Pass’ design, its successes and missteps, the response to “Fired from the Canon” and upcoming plans. You can read the results here.