The latest from Melville House‘s Neversink Library is After Midnight by Weimar Republic-era author Irmgard Keun.

• Well, it would seem WILFs (Writers I’d Like to…you know) is a thing, and Joshua Ferris, Diana Spechler, and Benjamin Kunkel are among the ten listed.

• Seems that Tolstoy was not a fan of Shakespeare or Chekhov.

• How Google+ could kill the author e-mail.