International scholars gather in Scotland to discuss Harry Potter bit.ly/JoULVM

Children's author and naturalist Jean Craighead George dead at 92 bit.ly/JmMKAE

As Avengers passes $1 billion in box office revenue, Joss Whedon thanks his fans bit.ly/KxwpnP

Hailey Leithauser wins the 2012 Emily Dickinson First Book Award bit.ly/KWZc7E

Bradley Cooper is a frustrated novelist in The Words movie bit.ly/JRgC5g

Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld wins Independent Foreign Fiction Prize via @iwj

Aaron Sorkin to write screenplay for Steve Jobs movie. It will be adapted from biography by Walter Isaacson bit.ly/JdBB40

Self-published SF author Hugh Howey has novel optioned by Ridley Scott, bought by Random House UK bit.ly/Js5tdU

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to file chapter 11 bankruptcy bit.ly/JolE9b

Former PW editor in chief Sara Nelson is new editorial director of Amazon Books bit.ly/KRIz9Z