• “It is definitely not your mother’s Donnell,” says the New York Times, ominously, of the new plans for the Fifty-Third Street branch of the New York Public Library.
• Famously reclusive eighty-seven-year-old national treasure Harper Lee is suing literary agent Samuel Pinkus over the copyright for To Kill a Mockingbird. Says Lee’s lawyer, “Pinkus knew that Harper Lee was an elderly woman with physical infirmities that made it difficult for her to read and see … Harper Lee had no idea she had assigned her copyright.”
• The new Goodreads archnemesis (our word), Riffle, is live.
• Martin Amis apparently “views the Brooklyn hipster scene as populated by conventional posers.”
• If fictional mothers wrote hypothetical parenting books—because why not?