It's almost – but not quite – heartening to read Mark Athitakis on American literary fiction's problems with the working class. English people are apt to assume that this sort of thing is peculiarly English (and Americans to agree with us).

• If they do an Antiques Roadshow for books, I hope there's an old-school scattering of valuable-looking but actually worthless items highlighted; that might stop secondhand bookshops being completely overwhelmed by queues of hopeful tat-toters.

• Metafilter on Hercule Poirot's investigation of the assassination of Hitler, via the Little Professor.

• Scott Pack clears house.

• Publisher with "insect issue" named.