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New York Times executive editor Bill Keller is backtracking from last week's surprise comments on the future of the paper's Sunday Book Review. He told the Poynter.com "Book Babes" then to expect less literary fiction (but more potboilers) and more topical non-fiction, but says now in the New York Observer that nobody should be concerned.
The Observer also says that Benjamin Schwarz, the Los Angeles-based literary editor of The Atlantic, is one of four finalists for the NYTBR editor job. (Via Romenesko)