- Brontë sisters’ birth home is now a café, and it’s for sale. (Curbed)
- The world loves Margaret Atwood for bringing her purse on stage at this year’s Emmys. (InStyle)
- Turkish author Ahmet Altan writes essay from prison on the eve of his trial. (Society of Authors)
- Mike Pence’s Instagram-famous rabbit has a book deal. (National Post)
- Toronto author Becky Blake wins 2017 CBC Non-fiction Prize. (CBC)
- Zadie Smith on how avoiding the Internet has helped her. (HuffPost)
- Zoe Whittall talks The Right Kind of People and sexual assault cases. (The Millions)
- Google now lets readers search their local library’s ebook offerings from their phones. (MashReads)
- The Fault in Our Stars author John Green’s brother, Hank, announces his first novel. (Entertainment Weekly)
- Looking back on J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit after 80 years. (The Independent)
- Gucci Mane talks to NPR about his new autobiography. (NPR)
- Another longstanding indie closes. (SeattlePI)
- Maybe the rise of emoji-speak isn’t actually the end of the English language as we know it. (TLS)
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