Andrew McCarthy signed a deal with Simon & Schuster for a travel memoir.

• George Saunders talks about what he’s reading this summer.

• Shane Jones talks to Ben Loory whose first book, Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day, is out in July.

• Apparently Marc Maron wrote a WTF television pilot with Ed Asner as his father.  We’re 100% behind that.

• Nico Muhly’s Seeing is Believing is streaming on NPR.