It's a good time for a round-up ...

• At The New York Review of Books, Sasha Weiss talks with Fintan O'Toole about Flann O'Brien, postmodernism, and Irish literature after James Joyce.
• Here's Robert Birnbaum on Tom Rob Smith's The Secret Speech. And once you've read that, read an excerpt. (I enjoyed Child 44, but I'm not completely sold on The Secret Speech.)
• There's a literary revolution afoot, and it's coming from the least likely place: your supermarket.
• Fellas: if you ever want to play MacGyver, make sure you have these three books on hand. (Conversely, ladies, if your husband ever wants to play MacGyver, make sure those books don't fall into his hands.)