U.S. District Judge Denise Cote imposed new restrictions on Apple, limiting its agreements with publishers, and said "she would appoint an external monitor to review Apple's antitrust compliance policies, procedures and training for two years," Reuters reported.

Terms of the judgment will expire after five years, though the ruling does allow for extensions "by one or more one-year periods, if necessary, to ensure effective relief." The injunction "was narrower than the U.S. Justice Department had sought, in line with Cote's statement last week that she wanted it 'to rest as lightly as possible on how Apple runs its business,' " Reuters noted.

The Justice Department had also proposed limitations on how Apple conducts business with with companies involved in movies, music and TV. Apple has said it will appeal the case.

photo: Birmingham News

Harper Lee has reached an "agreement in principle" to settle the lawsuit she brought in May alleging that Samuel Pinkus, son-in-law of her former literary agent, the late Eugene Winick, "duped" her into signing over To Kill a Mockingbird's copyright in 2007.

In addition, Pinkus's wife, Leigh Ann Winick, and Gerald Posner, "whose Miami residence is listed as the address of one of Pinkus's literary companies," were dropped from the lawsuit, USA Today wrote.

Defense attorney Vincent Carissimi said papers dismissing the case would be filed in federal court this week, but declined to provide any details of the settlement. "The parties reached a mutually satisfactory resolution and everybody would like at this point to put it behind them," he added.

Barnes & Noble plans to close bookstores in Sundance Square and at University Park Village in Fort Worth, Tex., by the end of the year. David Deason, B&N's v-p of development, told the Star-Telegram that leases are up at both locations in January. The company had wanted to stay at University Park Village, but declined to pay higher rent sought by the landlord.

"We have made tremendous effort to secure an extension to our lease at University Park Village," Deason said. "However the owners of the property have communicated that they are committed to breaking the store up into smaller spaces for other retailers that will pay rents in excess of what we can afford. We had hoped that we could find a way to keep the store open, but there just was not interest from the property owner in this case."

A.C. Crispin, the science fiction and fantasy and tie-in author who on September 3 posted on Facebook that she didn't have long to live, died on Friday of cancer. She was 63.

Crispin wrote 23 novels, including the StarBridge series, several Star Trek, Star Wars and V novels and a Pirates of the Caribbean novel that told the history of young Captain Jack Sparrow. She also was a v-p of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America and co-founded Writers Beware.

photo: Washington Post/Timothy R. Smith

Kramerbooks in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C., posted this score:
Drunks: 1
Window: 0

Ron Charles in the Washington Post reported that, according to a Kramerbooks employee, "early in the morning of Sept. 1, a couple of drunk guys were walking along Connecticut Ave when one of them pushed his friend into the store's window. It shattered, and the guys wobbled off. Some Kramer employees chased them down and brought them back, but when the police arrived, they refused to let the store press charges."

InTheCapital quotes a Kramerbooks manager: the accident caused "$500 to $800 worth of damage to the books. And we're still waiting on the glass, which has to be custom made."

For a new promotion by frozen food company Birds Eye, British poet and children's author Roger McGough has written "stories on a plate," which are aimed at entertaining children ages 3-10 during meals. The Bookseller reported that "a quarter of a million such plates will be given away for free through Sainsbury's and Morrisons stores nationwide over the next three months."

"I was delighted to take up the challenge offered by Birds Eye as it afforded an opportunity to take poetry out of the library, the classroom and the bookshop, and via the supermarket reach a wide audience of youngsters who may not read books," said McGough, whose stories will follow the adventures of Birds Eye mascot Clarence the Polar Bear. "Meal times needn't be fractious, nor poetry boring. Poetry on plates? Eat up and read on." Check out a video of Clarence's adventures.

And here's an appetizer:

In an open letter to "fellow book nerd" Oprah in the Huffington Post, Allison Hill, president and CEO of Vroman's and Book Soup in Pasadena and West Hollywood, Calif., has invited the TV star to visit her stores and suggested she visit other independent bookstores. The resulting hashtag is #OprahIndieBkstoreTour.

In the letter, Hill waxed nostalgic about Oprah's original book club, when "millions of people would read a book just because you said you liked it." While Hill said she appreciates Oprah Book Club 2.0, "it's just not the same. Not just because it's not on television (though it was great to have millions participating at the same time), but for other reasons. The timing of the selections (two in 2012, nothing yet in 2013) is just too sporadic to inspire anticipation or furor. And it's e-reader-centric, all digital downloads and online discussions. (I just don't read that way.) Not even an obvious link to buy the physical book. And not one mention of bookstores.

"My ongoing fantasy all these years has been that you would have one of your signature aha moments and realize how important bookstores are to reading and the future of books, that perhaps you'd stop championing your Kindle and referring people to Amazon," Hill continued. "But that hasn't happened. In your defense, I can only assume that you're a little isolated. I know you're too smart to not understand the repercussions for the future of books and publishing, authors and reading, if bookstores disappear. Bookstores are an endangered species and the entire literary ecosystem is at risk when we're at risk."

Hill concluded: "I suspect it's been awhile since you've had the opportunity to visit a bookstore. Bookstores may be the analog version of the digital world you read in, but there's always something special about the original 1.0."

With the Toronto International Film Festival now in full swing, Word & Film "spoke to a number of regular industry festival-goers to find out whether they sneak visits to their favorite" booksellers. While most said the films were all-consuming at the festival, Colin Geddes, a Toronto film festival programmer since 1997, "laid out his personal picks for the top four bookstores in the festival's orbit."

In an interview with the New York Times, Robert Contant, co-owner of St. Mark's Bookshop in New York City, said Charles Bukowski topped the list of authors whose books are often stolen.

"Bukowski himself had a kind of outlaw persona--he was a writer that the mainstream tended to ignore, and his reputation was built on word-of-mouth," said Contant. "Before St. Mark's Bookshop existed, my partner and myself worked at a bookstore near St. Mark's Church, where Bukowski was scheduled to read. Beforehand, he came into the bookstore, where we used to play rock 'n' roll music, and he said, 'Why don't you turn that crap off and play some Mozart?' So we did."

Alex by Pierre Lemaitre (MacLehose Press/Quercus Books). For more on this thriller, check out our Maximum Shelf.

This morning on Good Morning America: Tory Johnson, author of The Shift: How I Finally Lost Weight and Discovered a Happier Life (Hyperion, $22.99, 9781401324926).

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This morning on Fox & Friends: Si Robertson, author of Si-cology 1: Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle (Howard, $22.99, 9781476745374). He will also appear on Dr. Oz and Late Night With Jimmy Fallon.

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Today on NPR's Fresh Air: Jonathan Lethem, author of Dissident Gardens (Doubleday, $27.95, 9780385534932).

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Today on NPR's Diane Rehm Show: Alice McDermott, author of Someone (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $25, 9780374281090).

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Tonight on the Daily Show: Sheri Fink, author of Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital (Crown, $27, 9780307718969).

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Tomorrow morning on the Today Show: Julianne Moore, author of My Mom Is a Foreigner, But Not to Me (Chronicle, $16.99, 9781452107929).

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Tomorrow morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe: A. Scott Berg, author of Wilson (Putnam, $40, 9780399159213). He will also appear on NPR's Fresh Air and PBS's Charlie Rose.

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Tomorrow on CNBC's Power Lunch: Duff McDonald, author of The Firm: The Story of McKinsey and Its Secret Influence on American Business (Simon & Schuster, $30, 9781439190975). He will also appear on CNN's Lead With Jake Tapper.

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Tomorrow on Katie: CeeLo Green, author of Everybody's Brother (Grand Central, $28, 9781455516674).

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Tomorrow on NPR's Diane Rehm Show: Langdon Cook, author of The Mushroom Hunters: On the Trail of an Underground America (Ballantine, $26, 9780345536259).

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Tomorrow on NPR's On Point: Sue Grafton, author of W Is for Wasted (Marian Wood/Putnam, $28.95, 9780399158988).

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Tomorrow on NPR's Marketplace: M. Night Shyamalan, author of I Got Schooled: The Unlikely Story of How a Moonlighting Movie Maker Learned the Five Keys to Closing America's Education Gap (Simon & Schuster, $25, 9781476716459).

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Tomorrow on the Bethenny Show: Kelly Sullivan Walden, author of It's All in Your Dreams: How to Interpret Your Sleeping Dreams to Make Your Waking Dreams Come True (Conari Press, $16.95, 9781573245906).

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Tomorrow night on the Daily Show: Bill Dedman, author of Empty Mansions: The Mysterious Life of Huguette Clark and the Spending of a Great American Fortune (Ballantine, $28, 9780345534521).

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Tomorrow night on the Colbert Report: Shane Salerno, co-author of Salinger (Simon & Schuster, $37.50, 9781476744834). He will also appear on MSNBC's Now With Alex Wagner.

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Tomorrow night on the Late Show with David Letterman: Billy Crystal, author of Still Foolin' 'Em: Where I've Been, Where I'm Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys? (Holt, $28, 9780805098204).

"Even the Weinstein Company, charged with marketing Shane Salerno's nine-years-in-the-making documentary Salinger, wasn't able to suppress before release the film's biggest secret--that legendary author J.D. Salinger had five unreleased novels finished before his death, novels that his estate to are planning to release before 2020," Indiewire reported.

The movie, a last-minute Toronto International Film Festival screening, "purports to be much more than a series of twists, although it does adopt the aesthetic of a thriller. Five new clips and a last-minute trailer have just debuted, showing that Salinger was a symbol that of which we only witnessed a fraction."

And for this of a more cynical bent, Buzzfeed helpfully offered "9 reasons Salinger might be too annoying to see... even if you really love J.D. Salinger."

A longlist of 18 contenders for the £20,000 (US$31,274) Samuel Johnson Prize for Nonfiction has been named. Chair of judges Martin Rees said the list "reflects the welcome diversity and quality of nonfiction writing. We're confident that readers will find much to admire and enjoy in these original, enlightening and thought-provoking books." This year's shortlist will be released September 30, and a winner announced November 4.

After reading just two or three poems from Swoop, Hailey Leithauser's debut poetry collection, it's easy to see why this gathering of sleek, precise verse won the Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson First Book Award. Quite simply, poetry lovers will find reading any of her poems without smiling an impossible feat. Depending on the subject of the poem in question, the smile may be joyful, subtle or even a bit wicked--regardless, the talent and craft exhibited here is cause for sheer glee.

Leithauser has the rare ability to assemble phrases in such a way that the reader not only enjoys her facility with language but can instantly recognize the word depicted in her words, as her imagery clicks into perfect place. One example is the four-part "Extreme Season," in which spring, characterized in "Delirium," offers "emerald and pine and lime unsheathed to make/ a miser weep," while in the "Fever" of summer, would-be sleepers writhe

"on the bunched up,
corkscrewed sheets of cots
and slumped brass beds."

Leithauser's agility of expression and biting sense of humor shine through, whether in a vignette of a discarded lover merrily torturing a voodoo doll of her ex or the imagined thoughts of a scythe longing to give its wielder a sharp caress. Though she spares little time for the softer side of romance, she still proves her skill in conveying a range of emotions with a comparison of loneliness's ability to "nickel-and-dime you to death" versus the way envy "will empty your wallet."

More than once, Leithauser offers interludes on words "From the Grandiloquent Dictionary," lengthy or rarely used terms she plays upon so nimbly that readers may not come away with a definition of the word, but they will nonetheless have its essence. For example, in "Katzenjammer," whose title is a German word for a cat's wailing that may also mean any discordant sound or hangover, she encourages readers:

"Think of the yowl of three senile felines.
Think of a buzzsaw's black, sauerkraut whine.
Imagine ten screeched, unleashed violins.
Imagine the dawn that follows the gin."

Unfettered by allegiance to a single poetic form, Leithauser also shows her willingness to embrace both traditional rhymed forms and more playful experimentation with long, narrow slivers of verse that trickle down the page in a stream of upbeat rhythm. Here's hoping this confident and deft collection will be the first of many from a powerful wordsmith. --Jaclyn Fulwood

Shelf Talker: This shrewd debut collection showcases Hailey Leithauser's precise and clever verse.

The following were the most popular book club books during August based on votes from more than 80,000 book club readers from more than 35,000 book clubs registered at Bookmovement.com:

1. The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman
2. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
3. Beautiful Ruins: A Novel (P.S.) by Jess Walter
4. Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
5. The Kitchen House: A Novel by Kathleen Grissom
6. The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith (J.K. Rowling)
7. The Language of Flowers: A Novel by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
8. Orphan Train by Christina Baker Kline
9. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
10. Inferno by Dan Brown

Rising Stars:

Divergent by Veronica Roth
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty

[Many thanks to Bookmovement.com!]