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What are you doing this weekend? @cosmopolitanmagazine recommends that you drink a Pago Pago and read THE MUSE by Jessie Burton. We think that sounds like a brilliant idea.

THE MUSE by Jessie Burton is out this week! Find out what inspired her to write this imaginative new novel.

The creative booksellers at @bookpeopleaustin made this display. We wonder if the animals come to life when the store is closed!

PUPPYGRAM!

Enter the future, dystopian world of NIGHT OF THE ANIMALS which the @wsj calls “visionary.” The story of one man’s quest to release the animals from the London Zoo.

Summer reading recommendations from our resident mascot and book loving dog Leopold Bloom.

A: “I’m Just a Person,” by Tig Notaro. But I imagine he already pre-ordered it. Thanks, Obama!

Leopold Bloom is an armchair traveler, so he’s excited to read VOYAGER by Russell Banks, a book of travel writing that ranges from Alaska to the Caribbean to the Everglades to the Himalayas.

Listen to Russell Banks, author of the collection of travel writings VOYAGER in conversation with @npr‘s Scott Simon.

@newyorker review of DIANE ARBUS by Arthur Lubow. 

“Rumaan Alam's debut novel, Rich and Pretty, which centers on the complicated friendship between Sarah (who is the rich one of the title) and Lauren (the pretty one) feels fresh and true in a way that few other books on the topic have managed.”

Anthony Bourdain and President Obama having dinner together. In Vietnam.

"Broun’s debut novel mixes mystical and maniacal forces in a swirl of futuristic imagery featuring talking animals. In 2052, the last great repository of animals on Earth is the London Zoo. The Heaven’s Gate suicide cult has been systematically exterminating wildlife, along with themselves, in a search for a higher plane of existence. At the same time, nonagenarian Cuthbert Handley, addicted to a hallucinogen called Flot, searches for Drystan, his lost brother. With the comet Urga-Rampos in the sky, Cuthbert hears the voices of animals as his search leads him to the zoo, where an all-consuming desire to free the talkative creatures seizes him. Surrounding Cuthbert is a Britain under the totalitarian regime of Henry IX, or Henry9 as he is known on WikiNous, the heavily regulated network that has replaced the Internet. As Cuthbert works his way through the zoo, snapping chain-links with bolt cutters, he converses with the jackals, penguins, and an articulate sand cat as he looks for his brother and an elusive otter prince. Through precise and eloquent prose and a hint of political satire, Broun creates a near future filled with bioelectric technology and characters with patois as diverse as their desires. Broun’s novel is strange, witty, and engrossing, skipping through madness and into the realm of myth."

It's publication date for THE UNDERDOGS by Melissa Fay Greene, a moving new book about children with autism and their first friends: autism-assistance service dogs.

Here is a picture of a corgi reading HEAT AND LIGHT by Jennifer Haigh.