- President Obama reveals his summer reading list. (White House blog)
- PEN America revives PEN/Nabokov Award. (GalleyCat)
- Tickets to Harry Potter and the Cursed Child selling for £6‚000. (Evening Standard)
- New literary award for science-fiction aims to avoid Hugo Awards drama. (io9)
- Grant Morrison adapting Aldous Huxley’s dystopian Brave New World‚ for television. (The Wall Street Journal)
- A brief history of the world’s most hated adjective‚ “nice.” (The Huffington Post)
- Algorithm-based technology can produce “handwritten” notes for those with a bad scrawl. (Gizmodo)
- Can academics write? (The Awl)
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