Omni Daily News

M.G. gets a G.G.: At the venerable Governor General's Awards in Canada, ex-pat Kate Pullinger slipped past bigger names like Alice Munro, Michael Crummey, and Annabel Lyon at the post to win the fiction prize for The Mistress of Nothing, while two-time Giller Prize winner M.G. Vassanji won the nonfiction award for A Place Within: Rediscovering India. [Globe & Mail coverage]

The Ryan Leaf effect: On his blog, Malcolm Gladwell responds to Steven Pinker's NYTBR cover critique of What the Dog Saw (as linked in Old Media Monday this week). Scroll down into the comments section for an sometimes substantial debate about, among other things, "igon values" and how to measure whether NFL quarterbacks' draft positions correlate with their career success.

No recession for political book authors: Although no one but the president himself has yet written a big bestseller about Barack Obama, the NY Observer reports that Jodi Kantor has turned her recent NYT Magazine profile of the Obamas' marriage into a "stunning seven-figure book deal" with Little, Brown. Meanwhile, in other seven-figure political book news, Karl Rove's first book now has a title and pub date: Courage and Consequence, coming on March 9.

Moving & shaking: Sarah Palin's not the only bestselling author on Oprah this week. Jenna Jameson's appearance yesterday sent her 2004 memoir, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star (finally coming out in paperback in January) back into our top 100 and to the top of our Movers & Shakers list this morning.

--Tom