• PEN condemns the with a Who’s Who list of signatories.
• The NPR Grammar . My favorite—#6—made the list!
• Nora Roberts says “Bite me” to . No doubt that’ll inspire them to be even more rude.
• Be still my heart: .
• A history of . “(De Graff) knew he had a winner when a hundred and ten books were sold in a day and a half at a single cigar stand.”
• Someone stole the bronze from his tombstone. Fuckers.
• Turns out, audio books . So next time you tackle Ulysses just play it in the car on the way to work. And turn the volume down.
• Print , according to BookScan, but maybe only due to changes in reporting practices. And due to Bill O’Reilly. And due to Gillian Flynn . . .
• HarperCollins recalls a Middle East atlas after . I think they need a new cartographer.
• Facebook has started . Wait for “ZuckerBook” stickers to appear on covers. Oh, and it’s already having .
• The sold out on its first day. At 6,000 pages, I’ll wait for the movie.
• Mark Coker, founder of Smashwords, shares his . If you’re an indie author this is worth reading, because Mark’s got a good crystal ball.
• Men improve their grammar when . Calm yourselves: they don’t become Shakespeare. But they do get more creative.
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