Wild and Crazy Libraries, and Other News

“It is definitely not your mother’s Donnell,” says the New York Times, ominously, of the new plans for the Fifty-Third Street branch of the New York Public Library.
Famously reclusive eighty-seven-year-old national treasure Harper Lee is suing literary agent Samuel Pinkus over the copyright for To Kill a Mockingbird. Says Lee’s lawyer, “Pinkus knew that Harper Lee was an elderly woman with physical infirmities that made it difficult for her to read and see … Harper Lee had no idea she had assigned her copyright.”
The new Goodreads archnemesis (our word), Riffle, is live.
Martin Amis apparently “views the Brooklyn hipster scene as populated by conventional posers.”
If fictional mothers wrote hypothetical parenting books—because why not?