Tattered Essence

The Washington Post is ending its stand alone book section. If you are a fan of Book World it will not be there any longer. Instead, it will be a separate Sunday section and moving its coverage of books and publishing elsewhere in the paper. This announcement was made yesterday.

This means that the Post would publish about three-quarters of the roughly 900 reviews it has carried each year. The change will take effect Feb. 22, 2009.