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A few things to tide you over until tonight's great debate:

• Normally I dig these weird home decor ideas involving books but this inverted bookshelf is kinda stupid. It looks like it would be hard to get the books, out and that it would only look cool from one angle.
  

• A member of the Nobel Prize jury has said that American literature sucks (well, sort of). Normally this kind of America dissing would have Sarah Palin in an uproar but since it has to do with books, I'm guessing it won't come up tonight. Instead, we'll have to settle for the polite outrage of the blogosphere.

• The Miracle Worker, by the other William Gibson.

• 50 things every comic collection requires. (via kottke.org)

• While others are posting about the highest paid authors, I'm more interested in this Slate piece about how bloggers are paid.