As we wrote about yesterday [2], this week is the submission period for the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award [3], and it seems the occasion has stirred up debate about the merits of the award.

Yesterday, Mediabistro's GalleyCat [4] posted a defense of the success of last year's winning book, Fresh Kills [5], in response to snarky reader comments. Another Galleycat post yesterday linked to an article [6] published in N1BR, the new online book supplement to lit mag n+1, written by Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, one of last year's award judges. And, today, GalleyCat [7] posted a correction to Wellington's article submitted by Jane Ciabattari [8], president of the National Book Critics Circle [9]. Let's see what tomorrow brings.