If you’ve been on the Internet for any length of time (and you’re a writer), you notice certain trends. Newbies who encounter the wealth of jokes they’ve never read before, and their joy at sharing these gems with everyone they know. Innocents who become paralyzed by manuscript formatting to the point they can’t sleep or eat (our advice: stop worrying — formatting is the least of your problems). Trusting souls who in turn share their lack of judgment in the form of viruses sent to their entire acquaintance. Oh, and scams. We could write volumes on Internet scams and the

Of course you should serve wine with a poetry reading. We naturally expect to be offered vino the moment we walk through the door. So what makes Felix Dennis’s promise of wine so different? The good stuff. He swears he’ll be serving decent wine to go with his poetic offerings. Dennis, owner of Maxim and Stuff (oddly enough, two mags that don’t grace our household), will also tour with a private jet and roadies. We suspect some stops will also have an opening band, but make no promises. Lloyd Grove’s Lowdown (first item) Did I Mention The Free Wine? (Felix

If you were to say to us “there are too many books in bookstores”, we would laugh. Probably politely, but we would laugh. We’d cover our mouth with our hand (that’s the polite part) and snigger away. We’d also think something along the lines of, “Is she crazy? Of course there aren’t too many books. It’s really more a matter that there’s not enough time.” But we are not casual readers. We follow reviews. We spend hours in bookstores and online. We could probably build a new kind of eco-friendly house from the sheer number of volumes we have piled