The restored Edgar Allan Poe cottage in the Bronx has won the “Preservation Oscars,” a Lucy G. Moses Preservation Award.

Guests of the PEN World Voices Festival will get a gift bag of books hand-selected by Jennifer Egan.

The art of the toast.

A roundup of literary curmudgeons.

Celebrate poem in your pocket day.

Jason Epstein: “The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse is irreversible.”