- Stephen King says everyone should chill out about clowns. (Los Angeles Times)
- U.K. will celebrate its first National Bookshop Day this weekend. (Melville House)
- National Book Awards finalists revealed. (GalleyCat)
- Sarah Jessica Parker to launch book imprint with Hogarth Publishing. (Entertainment Weekly)
- Virtual reality needs storytellers. (Literary Hub)
- Reading literary fiction won’t actually make you a better person. (The Awl)
- Shakespeare in Fluff reimagines Bard’s plays starring pets. (Mashreads)
- Amazon cuts more than 1‚000 titles from Japan program after runaway success of Kindle Unlimited. (The Wall Street Journal)
- Hear Three Women‚ Sylvia Plath’s little-known radio play. (Open Culture)
- Kierkegaard’s literary inspirations. (The Times Literary Supplement)
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