Sundry links from around the Web:

• Elton John is at work on the musical adaptation of George Orwell’s Animal Farm
• HarperCollins U.K. comes out against Wylie e-book gambit (plus, Financial Times says the debacle could “lead to the death of the 500-year-old publishing business as it is known”)
• Port Hope shoots down attempt to rename street after Farley Mowat
• Stan Lee’s latest comics series will star … Stan Lee
• Prior shoplifting charges catch up to Tao Lin, author of the novel Shoplifting from American Apparel (it’s complicated)