Apocalyptic pronouncements have been made in publishing amidst the layoffs and rough economy; even megastore Borders is struggling. Barnes and Noble's chairman told the Wall Street Journal last week that never in all my years have I seen a retail climate as poor as the one we are in; he's preparing for a terrible holiday sales season. It might not be all bad, reports Motoko Rich in today's Times. After all, Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind sold a million copies in a year in 1936, the middle of the Depression. Other literary types remain true to their wishful thinking: the whole natio...

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