One of the judges for the Man Booker prize talks about it in this article here. Interesting thoughts on both reading (132 books in 147 days!) and writing. Since a number of the people on my friends list are writers I thought people might find it interesting.
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=3308497 I plan on being a lemming and picking up at least a few books off the short list and probably the others mentioned in the article as well.