Linklog: Reviewing with cake, uncut classics, and more

In the future, all book reviews will, like this one, be done with cake . This will present a problem for people who like to cut out their favourite reviews and stick them in the front of the book . • In the past, it could be very easy to tell that you hadn't read that exciting new economics treatise . • In the present, it's incredibly difficult to avoid responses to Macmillan v Amazon : two of the best, however, are by Caleb Crain (early in the process) and by Charles Stross ( repeatedly , and with good links ). • What a literary agent gets in the post .