? Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, is "here to report: Book tours are not dead." Not here, precisely, but over at Powell's blog.

? Eoin Purcell believes "Publishers should be platform agnostic," and explained why in a Publishing Perspectives article earlier this week: E-books are a Cul-de-sac.

? Roger Lowenstein's The End of Wall Street hasn't gotten the buzz it probably deserves yet, which Janet Maslin began to remedy in the New York Times book section recently, writing:

It is a complex but imaginative book, an especially useful piece of the jigsaw puzzle that current Wall Street books are busy creating.

The author has documented economic history before in When Genius Failed, one of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time. His new book will be out next week, and if you liked Too Big to Fail or The Big Short, you'll appreciate Lowenstein's addition to the genre.

? Harvey Mackay, author of Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive (also one of the 100 Best) showed up on Larry King Live recently with some great advice on how to break through an overcrowded job market and get noticed (and maybe even hired).

If you like what he has to say in the interview, his new book, Use Your Head to Get Your Foot in the Door, delves into the issues more deeply and intimately and, as Larry King says "there isn't a more important book out." Now, Larry King is no stranger to hyperbole, but that remark is spot on for so many Americans right now, and it's great to see him spread the gospel of Mackay. If you want to find out how to network without being annoying, check out Part 2 of the King interview or head over to harveymackay.com.

? Jon has tried to convince a few of us in the office that Kell on Earth is worth watching. I respond with a quote from a recent interview with Ms. Cutrone in Inc. Magazine:

I think one of the greatest gifts for me professionally and for my clients was to learn the word “no.”

? I'm really looking forward to diving into the advance copy of Mark Frauenfelder's Made by Hand that showed up here recently. You'll here more from us on it eventually, but if you can't wait, you can whet your appetite on this week's Treehugger review. And if you're interested in a different DIY project, such as say a college education, check out Salon's interview with Anya Kamenetz, author of DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education.

? There is one more interview I want to point you to this weekend (or whenever you can get to it)—Michael Bungay Stanier interviewing Matt May.

? Walter S. Mossberg was amazingly able to review the iPad without chopping vegetables with it.

? Freakonomics the movie? Yep.

? Aaron isn't going to like it, but I've got nothing else, and the rest of the gang has already left for Conference Room H for a week-ending beer or four. So, here is Milwaukee's own, Juniper Tar. (This goes out to Shawn, Nancy and Mack.)