Morning reading: Reilly on Gaffin! Almond on liars!

Allow me to point you to Adam Reilly's Phoenix piece on our Boston Blogs leader, Adam Gaffin of Universal Hub, whose leadership has allowed this blog to earn enough each month to buy a bottle of $8 Barbera, and sometimes two. (The low take is our fault, not his.)  Also worth a read is Steve Almond's Globe op-ed on the fake-memoir genre, "Liar, Liar, Bestseller on Fire." He correctly diagnoses the problem, which is not ultimately about lying authors or bad fact-checking but rather the state of the book business...and thus, ultimately, the fault of all of us who buy "Chicken Soup for the America Idol Soul" rather than a good novel or serious piece of nonfiction.