A dark night for the other Batman

Love books? So does Edward Champion, the litblogger whose podcasts include a wide and sometimes wild array of authors. The sad news is he's having trouble keeping his show going, our own Carolyn Kellogg reports:

Shuttering the show would be a shame. Champion -- who took the character of Bat Segundo from the book "Ghostwritten" by David Mitchell -- gives equal time to highbrow literature and popular culture. The authors above are a representatively diverse sample: (clockwise from left) hostess/actress Amy Sedaris (in sprinkles), seminal DJ Grandmaster Flash, Whiting Award-winning Marianne Wiggins, professor/TV interviewer James Lipton, debut novelist Garth Risk Hallberg and Charles Baxter, a National book Award finalist who's considered a writers' writer. He's also talked to the prolific, intense William T. Vollman, bestselling chick-lit writer Jennifer Weiner and hundreds of other authors...

Read the rest in our own lovely litblog, Jacket Copy.

--Veronique de Turenne

Garth Rish Hallberg photo by Timothy Briner; Charles Baxter photo by Keith E. Johnson