Steve Cavanagh is a Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger winner. Wondering if he could sustain a mystery with only two suspects that would flip the reader's opinion over and over again, he wrote Fifty Fifty, which our reviewer calls "an exhilarating hair-raiser that combines the moral seriousness of a legal thriller with the blood-drenched villainy of a horror novel." Discover just how tricky it was to strike that balance. No spoilers, we promise!... (continued)

"British Library to symbolically reinstate Oscar Wilde's reader pass 130 years on," the Guardian reported.

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"Bibliotherapy is approved in Canada for treatment of depression and anxiety," the CBC reported.

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"William Faulkner resigns from his post office job with a spectacular letter (1924)." (via Open Culture)

Norma Swenson, an author of the 1970s global bestseller Our Bodies, Ourselves, died May 11 at age 93. The New York Times reported that Swenson "was working to educate women about childbirth, championing their right to have a say about how they delivered their babies, when she met the members of the collective that had put out the first rough version of what would become the feminist health classic Our Bodies, Ourselves. It was around 1970, and... (continued)