The Electric Typewriter Two-fer: Tom Wolfe and Susan Orlean

When you read silently, are you really reading silently? Or, as some researchers hypothesized in a recent study, are you “making ‘sound’ in your head?”

This “book trailer” released by Gary Shteyngart for his upcoming book Super Sad True Love Story has been the cause of much recent hilarity. If you have yet to see it, look for appearances by Jeffrey Eugenides, Jay McInerney and actor James Franco.

Have you ever tweeted only to delete it a minute later after discovering a typo? Yes, even we aren't immune. At The New Yorker, our own Mark O'Connell examines the public humiliation that follows after you tweet something regrettable. Pair with: Our piece on literary Twitter's first tweets.

Jeff Vandermeer writes for the Los Angeles Times about autobiographical influence in fantasy and sci-fi and argues that "there's little or no difference in process or results compared to "normal" fiction, except that sometimes you end up with a dragon in your story and sometimes you don't." Pair with Alex Trivilino's account of "binge-reading" Vandermeer's Southern Reach trilogy.