The Friday File, 12/3/2010

Happy December! I trust you all had a wonderful, gluttonous Thanksgiving, and are deep into celebrations for this holiest month of consumerism and catchy Mariah Carey songs. Here's a big batch of links to end the week:

• Is a rejection letter actually a second chance?

• Unlike that ill-fated day on your second-grade field trip, the specimens in this e-reader petting zoo won't bite your fingers and snatch the ice cream cone out of your hand. (via MobyLives)

• eChook? Gesundheit!

• Google promises to hit the e-book market by the end of the year.

• Michael Pietsch's letter to David Foster Wallace regarding the Infinite Jest manuscript, with footnotes, naturally.

• "A review adds the book to the universal library. That tree fell; I heard it. That’s the reason for reviewing and for reviews, really: to be sure books make a sound."

• Are modern literary novels too depressing and boring?

Have a good weekend.