Litquake invades New York on September 27th, with a special East Coast version of our infamous Lit Crawl! The one-night assault on bars and bookstores will be spearheaded by Suzanne Russo and Opium magazine’s Todd Zuniga, two Litquake committee members who’ve moved to the Big Apple and set up an amazing cavalcade of readings – five venues on the Lower East Side, six in the East Village, and six more in Williamsburg. Highlights will include a lightning Literary Death Match, a reading of John Reed’s new play All the World’s a Grave, composed of excerpts from Shakespeare plays, a travel reading with Mary Morris and others, co-curated by the Restless Legs reading series, and “Against the Grain,” an event organized by New Yorker editor Ben Greenman. Lit Crawl NYC begins at 6pm in Manhattan, then moves across the river to Williamsburg for a final phase starting at 8:30pm, followed by an after-party bash. Email here for more info.

Everyone in the book business is sneaking clicks on New York magazine’s alarmist new feature on the book industry, “The End” by Boris Kachka. See for yourself if the article is catastrophic or hand-wringing – or both: “The book business as we know it will not be living happily ever after. With sales stagnating, CEO heads rolling, big-name authors playing musical chairs, and Amazon looming as the new boogeyman, publishing might have to look for its future outside the corporate world.”

Eight pages of beauty and heartbreak: Mister Bookseller is a very cool graphic story by Eastern European illustrators Darko Macan and Tihomir Celanovic, about a bookstore which contains all the books in the world.