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Jennifer Egan Writes Short Story for Twitter

The Pulitzer Prize-winner’s latest effort will come in 140-character increments.

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Where Are America’s Most Well-Read Cities?

And spare us the ‘Best Read’ vs. ‘Most Well-Read’ crap, pedants.

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WATCH: Maurice Sendak’s Last Interview with Stephen Colbert

The beloved children’s author passed away May 8; here’s the interview NewsFeed will always remember him by.

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Reading While Eating for May 1: May Day Edition

For today’s lunch links: Occupy protests, 10 great springtime reads and things you didn’t know about Hitler.

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Reading While Eating for April 27: The Eagle Has Landed

Who cares what else happened today, because the only thing we’re looking at over lunch are pictures of the Space Shuttle on top of a plane.

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Q&A: How to Give Away One Million Books in One Night

World Book Night, an event started in the U.K., aims to give away one million books to one million people. TIME spoke to Jamie Byng, the event’s founder and chair, about how books can make the world a saner place.

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Watch: President Obama's Dramatic Reading of Where the Wild Things Are

On Monday, amid the festivities at the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, with the help of the First Family, the President read Maurice Sendak’s classic childrens’ book to a gathered crowd of children.

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Reading While Eating for April 3: Art Meets Science

Tuesday’s links match great performances with not-so-great technology.

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Reading While Eating for April 2: Joke’s on You

Monday’s links recap April Fools’ Day and check out the science behind laughter.

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Ex-Goldman Sachs Exec Who Resigned in Op-Ed Gets Million-Dollar Book Deal

For one ex-employee, at least, it’s lucrative to rail against the Vampire Squid.