History of the Most Widely Used Font

Glen Duncan, author of the genre novel The Last Werewolf, opened his New York Times review of Colson Whitehead's Zone One with this controversial line: "A literary novelist writing a genre novel is like an intellectual dating a porn star". Understandably, this led to some uproar. Now he's doubling down on his stance.

Hobart is celebrating the month of June by offering a 20% discount on all of their Short Flight / Long Drive Books. You can pick up any two for $15. In particular I recommend Adam Novy’s Avian Gospels, a vividly imagined story of a young boy who can control flocks of birds. (I’ve recommended it before.) You can also get a taste for the book by watching its trailer over here.

Are you still not following Pentametron, even after I urged you to do so last week? (And even after New York Magazine added it to its Approval Matrix?) Well, if that’s the case, I shouldn’t even share Earwickr with you. You don’t deserve to read Finnegans Wake spelled out on your Twitter timeline, 140 characters at a time. (Bonus: Michael Chabon reviews James Joyce’s final work for The New York Review of Books.)