A new week, and new e-reader news: Today’s PW Morning Report says perhaps a color e-reader is on the way. The new color e-reader will use the same technology Kindle uses to replicate the look of paper on a screen. Here’s the link, if you want to know more.

In University of Nebraska Press news, Kokomo Joe author John Christgau was on the Writer’s Block on KQED (the public radio affiliate serving Northern California) last week. A podcast of Christgau reading from Kokomo Joe is archived on the KQED Web site, and you can hear it here. Kokomo Joe, by the way, tells the story of the first Japanese-American jockey, whose career was cut short as WWII began and Japanese-Americans faced discrimination, relocation and worse. Yoshio "Kokomo Joe" Kobuki never became a horse racing star, but in my opinion that makes his story even more compelling.

And on another note, a review of Microfictions is posted on The Complete Review Online. Microfictions, by Ana Maria Shua, is a collection of very short fiction (often referred to as “flash fiction”). Many of the stories are just a sentence or two, yet they’re still surprising, funny, chilling, though-provoking or all of the above. A sampling of stories from the book accompanies the review, which is posted here.