We've seen "Cormac McCarthy" Tweet apocalyptic non sequiturs. "Philip Roth" promised us a bite-sized short story. Now a fake Twitter account for British spy novelist John le Carré is spreading bizarre death rumors about J.K. Rowling.
We've all lied about applying to schools before. "Of course I sent in my grad school applications," keeps mom happy while you live in her basement working part time for beer money. If you're going to lie about about it on Twitter, though, be prepared to get busted by the school you've apparently applied to.
Today in books and publishing: Alexandria, Va. is America's most well-read city, at least according to Amazon, Pippa Middleton's having trouble finishing her book, and Gabriel García Márquez is alive, despite what Twitter says.
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