Really sorry, guys, but it’s that kind of week. A few quick things to feed the RSS:

• Public employers retaliating against whistleblower employees? No problem. (Welcome to your new Supreme Court.)

• Left Behind Christian apocalypse novels spawn a bigoted video game.

• Banville will pen a screenplay based on The Sea; he envisions Anthony Hopkins or Michael Gambon in the lead role.

• Are endless festivals damaging the novel? (See also Dorothy Parker on literary gatherings.)

• A British county’s reading campaign involves “scatter[ing] 100 copies of a Jane Austen classic in public places across Hampshire.”

• The author of The Graduate, from which the film of the same name was adapted, has signed a deal to write a sequel. (Previously: the author, having signed away film rights for a pittance, was having trouble making rent.)

• Laila Lalami finds the world of Meg Mullins’ The Rug Merchant “engaging, but not fully rewarding.”

• Voltaire’s letters to Catherine the Great fetch $750K, breaking the prior “world record for handwritten correspondence” from the period. Some of the letters are signed “the old hermit.”

• Muriel Spark and new Dr. Who David Tennant donated items to an Edinburgh book sale.

• A rejected author takes revenge. (Via Pete Lit.)