- News Corp blames HarperCollins’s poor quarter on low sales for Divergent series and ebooks. (Publishers Weekly)
- The process of translating an “untranslatable” Russian novel. (Literary Hub)
- No smoochie-woochie here: Nabokov’s preferred endearments for his wife Véra included “my beloved insecticle,” skunky,” and “mothling.” (The New York Review of Books)
- Too many rock memoirs, not enough time to roll? A round-up of surprises from the fall season’s titles. (Vulture)
- Risky business: all the weird Tom Cruise stories from Leah Remini’s Scientology takedown. (Slate)
- If you would “sooner die than stay in a rundown hotel” (and you probably will), you might be living inside a Stephen King novel. (The Toast)
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