Round-up: 1. Publishers Weekly's guy-centric list. The lit magazine is catching flak for not including a single female author in its list of the 10 best books of 2009. 2. Stephen King: Playboy poet. The author takes a rare excursion into poetry in this month's issue of Playboy. "The Bone Church" tells of a jungle expedition gone awry: "There were thirty-two of us went into that greensore / and only three who rose above it. / We were thirty days in the green, and only one of us came out." 3. The biggest rock autobiography of all time ... might be that of Bruce Springsteen. New York Post reports that the Boss is working on his memoirs, which could sell for as much as $10 million. 4. Mein bad. On Friday, Apple's App Store offered a Spanish-language eBook version of Adolf Hitler's "Mein Kampf." A predictable blast of Web grumbling followed, and the book was taken down within 24 hours. 5. Nooks will be a little late, but in time for Christmas. Pre-orders for Barnes & Noble's eBook reader won't ship until Dec. 11, the store reported. Original ship date was Nov. 30. Apparently, demand exceeded the retailer's expectations.

Just shelved: "Under the Dome" (Hardcover): Stephen King's latest, a 1,000-page-plus thriller about a small Maine town and the mysterious dome that's encasing it. The dome just appears one day, no warning or explanation, entrapping the citizens. Power struggle ensues. "Changing My Mind" (Hardcover): "White Teeth" writer Zadie Smith's collection of essays on reading, seeing, being and feeling. "Last Words" (Hardcover): The life and times of late comedian George Carlin. Carlin's friend Tony Hendra spent years talking with Carlin about his tale and the time since Carlin's death compiling it all into a book.