Printer’s Ball Paper Dresses and More

or those of you who managed to miss the Victorian-inspired dresses made from recycled paper at the Publisher’s Ball last Friday, check out this video, courtesy of Amy Guth:

For more info on the Publishers Ball, check out all of Amy’s interviews from the event.

In Other News:
–Now that Blagojevich’s book The Governor is up for pre-order on Amazon, customers can tag the book with keywords such that it might come up when one searches for “moron.”
–To promote his new book, Chicago author Marcus Sakey is holding a twitter/facebook-based contest in which the winner will receive not only a signed copy of The Amateurs, but also a ton of other books.
–Newcity Lit takes a look at the Chicago literary scene.
–The first review is in of Nabokov’s “The Origin of Laura,” published by Playboy, and it isn’t pretty.