News Around the Net

Which stories from your childhood still make the room all dusty for you?  Where the Red Fern Grows, anyone?  How dare they make me read that in elementary school!

Here's something unexpected: ESPN the Magazine is running a sports-themed short fiction contest this summer.  Check out the details.

There's something interesting about the top ten books on Kindle.  They're all free.  Feel the e-book revolution!  It cannot be stopped.

And speaking of the revolution, Google is joining in.

One Book, One Twitter, whose goal is to be the world's biggest book club, has chosen Neil Gaiman's American Gods as their first reading.  If you want in, you can go here.

At least one middle school in Pennsylvania celebrated Poem in Your Pocket Day.  Hooray!

Last, but certainly not least, here's a video of William Burroughs shooting a Shakespeare poster.  Because we can.