J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird will no longer be the preferred reading assigned in US schools.

Some better Salinger news is that the J.D. Salinger American Masters documentary will be happening.

F. Scott Fitzgerald’s 3,600-square-foot, four-bedroom, three-bath Victorian Baltimore townhouse is up for sale.

A Joshua Mohn excerpt is up at The Nervous Breakdown. Mohr will be reading at KGB Bar on March 10th.

Graywolf Press is looking to build a better website, and could use some help.

Rewriting the book of Andy Murray.

John Coltrane’s Naval Reserve enlistment shot.

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