Some quick news hits to kick-start your week:

• The New Yorker editors on assembling the new Summer Fiction issue (plus Q&As with the “20 under 40”)
• Glenn Beck’s latest reading recommendation the work of a notorious anti-Semite
• Bret Easton Ellis: “I did not want to write a sequel to Less Than Zero.” (But he did)
• Steve Jobs on Apple’s “hell factory”: “[It’s] pretty nice…. They’ve got restaurants and swimming pools”
• Wiley editors have high hopes for With Glowing Hearts
• Sonia Gandhi’s supporters angry about fictionalized take on her life; Gandhi herself remains mum