Letters of Note features several exchanges that took place in 1924 between twenty-eight year old F. Scott Fitzgerald and Scribner editor Maxwell Perkins; a new edition of Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury will be published with different color inks marking time shifts in the narrative; if you're planning an outdoor expedition this summer, consider a campfire recipe Hemingway would love; and other news.

Newly-appointed United States Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey is at work on a memoir detailing her life growing up in 1970s Mississippi as a daughter of black mother and a white father; poet Simon Armitage walked over two hundred miles across the United Kingdom exchanging poetry readings for food and shelter; Author Michael Chabon describes his sometimes fraught relationship with the work of James Joyce; and other news.

The Millions previews the most anticipated books for the second half of 2012; Sadie Stein answers a worried reader's plea to kick a cultural trash addiction; award-winning author Sarah Manguso offers advice for young writers; and other news.

In a fight against the controversial Arizona House Bill 2281, which effectively bans ethnic-studies classes and curricula, novelist Tony Diaz and other members of the Texas-based arts advocacy group Nuestra Palabra have formed a network of writers and supporters to raise awareness about the impact of the bill and to counter its effects with initiatives such as “banned book bashes” and the building of underground libraries.

Fiction writer Jami Attenberg shares her experience using social-media platform Tumblr and offers advice to authors who want to get started themselves.