• The film adaptation of A Confederacy of Dunces has stalled. (Via Sarah Weinman.)

• Jonathan Coe, A.S. Byatt and other British writers reveal where they go for relaxation and inspiration in the summer.

• Margaret Atwood raves about Orhan Pamuk’s Snow, a novel I hope to read and discuss very soon. Also in the NYTBR: an interview with Pamuk. And at the recommendation of a reader named Xian, I read this outstanding 1991 New Republic essay, on the first English translation of Pamuk’s work, last week.

• Writers as lyricists (mentions the One Ring Zero cd and contributions from Margaret Atwood, Paul Auster, Dave Eggers, et al). (Via Bookninja.)

• Czeslaw Milosz, Polish poet and nobelist, died recently at 93.

• Remembering poet Donald Justice.

• On discovering “lost work from a writer whose canon is thought to be complete” — i.e., Larkin, Woolf.