• Awesome RT @SmartBitches "In the Koran, 1st thing God said to Mohammed: 'Read.'" Librarian saved 70% of Basra library. http://nyti.ms/aujbuW #
• RT @tayari So you have your editor's comments. Now what? http://twurl.nl/logbxs #

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Author Tayari Jones is putting her money where her mouth is by boycotting Arizona in the wake of the state’s governor signing an extra-super-double-plus-ungood bill aimed at that state’s mostly Latino immigrant population.

More here.

And here.

You also can find Jones, author of the sublime Leaving Atlanta, on Twitter as @tayari.

• I wish I could've gotten one of these books http://bit.ly/9B73rB #

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Author Tananarive Due has kindly posted an excerpt of the new Tennyson Hardwick novel she’s written with (her husband) Steven Barnes, From Cape Town with Love.

I enjoyed the first two books in this series, so I’m looking forward to this one.

On Facebook, Due also mentioned that Blair Underwood [insert girlish sigh here] had directed and starred in a trailer for the book. No word on when the trailer hits the Internet.

• RT @JazzWax: Nancy Wilson on why she never viewed herself as an A-lister: http://jazzwax.com/ (via @ElementsOfJazz) #
• RT @gabrielroth Beverly Cleary is 94 today, and seems exactly like you'd hope she would be: http://j.mp/9ve9es #

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• This. RT@Fortitude1913 Duke ought to thank their lucky stars. It was not powerhouse basketball that won the game. #
• I have an ARC of the new Isabel Allende. Now if only I could find time to read it. #

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• Publishers Weekly gets a new owner.
• Apple reported 250,000 e-book downloads in one day after launching the iPad.
• On getting an illegal download of a book after buying a hard copy.
• An interview with Walter Mosley.
• Haki Madhubuti, who founded Third World Press, has been forced to resign from Chicago State University.
• Walter Dean Myers to appear at book festival in his native (who knew?) West Virginia

• Via work, just spoke with someone who is five years younger than I, yet makes 5x more money annually. Bitter? Moi? Why would you think that? #

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• WriteBlack favorite Junot Diaz has a piece in The New Yorker
• Banned words
• On the importance of reading
• Books. About food. By Southerners.
• In praise of (Breeze Harper’s) Sistah Vegan
• And finally:

The author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks speaks (to Stephen Colbert):

Author Dolen Perkins-Valdez, who has written the new book Wench, which is about white slave masters and their black enslaved mistresses (creepy!), talks about how she uses Skype in her classroom at University of Puget Sound to introduce her students to authors.