- Yaddo, the U.S. artists’ colony that was host to writers such as Flannery O’Connor, John Cheever, and Paul Bowles, designated an historical landmark
- Bel Kaufman, author of Up the Down Staircase, passes away at 103
- George R.R. Martin sits out scripting any Game of Thrones episodes for the upcoming season so that he can work on the new series novel
- “The country is crawling with them. I think it’s out of control.” Billy Collins on America’s proliferating poets laureate
- The New Yorker has new fiction from Paul Theroux
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