Zadie Smith’s On Beauty is getting adapted for film, courtesy of director Kasi Lemmons.

• Teju Cole: currently making his way through the Tournament of Books brackets; currently writing astute things about direct speech and international politics.

• Emma Straub is sharing her experiences of the current Magnetic Fields tour with The Paris Review.

• Harvey Pekar’s final memoir will be titled Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me.

• Aaron Burch eulogizes the now-shuttered Barnes & Noble where he worked in college.

• The Outlet covers this past weekend’s Black Clock release party at McNally Jackson.

• At HTML Giant, Noah Cicero and Elizabeth Ellen talked about Ohio, Dave Eggers, and more.

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