Appendix A: Your Marriage Is Too Easy

• Apparently you didn’t want to be married to Leo Tolstoy. (Not that you ever had a chance.)

• Don’t buy the media hype, as too often the echo chamber ignores the truth about print: Bookstores can thrive in the 21^st Century!

• Political columnist David Brooks opines about Jonathan Franzen’s new book.

• Benjamin Percy has been on the horizon as an author to watch. Here’s a full interview about his latest novel.