<http://schema.org/articleBody>
"  Your lazy days at the beach are about to get an IQ boost thanks to the six authors who have revealed their favorite summer reads to New York Magazine this week. Amongst these novel-know-it-alls is Saturday Night Live writer Simon Rich, two-time Booker Prize\u2013winner Peter Carey and New York Times bestselling author Rebecca Skloot\u2014not a bad line up to take note from. Some of the recommendations include Michael Chabon&amp;#039;s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &amp;amp;amp; Clay, and Our Dumb Century by the writers of The Onion, which Rich says, &amp;quot;made me laugh so hard during Hebrew school that my rabbi kicked me out of the classroom. I wasn&amp;#039;t even reading it at the time\u2014just thinking about it.&amp;quot; [NY Mag]\u2014Laura Lajiness The Daily Beast has a list of five fantastic literary festivals across the globe, from Jamaica to Prague, taking place this summer. But pack your bags quick because the summer reading season has already started\u2014like Britain&amp;#039;s book bonanza, The Guardian Hay Festival, a rowdy 10-day affair that began on May 27 and ends on June 6. It features group discussions and readings by big book-y names like Martin Evans, John Sulston, Ian McEwan, and Nick Clegg. [The Daily Beast]\u2014L.L. Perhaps the last person anyone expected to gossip about in 2010 is Mark Twain, author of 19th Century American literary classics like Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. But the juicy details and scathing comments said to comprise much of his autobiography\u2014which he requested not to be released until at least 100 years after his passing\u2014will make it impossible for book lovers to avoid making scandalized Tweets about Twain&amp;#039;s life. The 5,000-page manuscript, which has been stored in a vault in Berkeley until now, will be released as a trilogy in November. Amongst other topics, the autobiography covers Twain&amp;#039;s very un-Victorian relationship with his secretary, Isabel Van Kleek Lyon, with whom he was so close that she gave him an electric vibrating sex toy. And the other hot topics Twain explores\u2014such as Teddy Roosevelt&amp;#039;s expansion policies, missionaries in Africa, and patriotism\u2014may shed some light on why Twain insisted the manuscript be locked up for so long. [The Independent]\u2014Valeriya Safronova In this day and age, it&amp;#039;s sometimes difficult to navigate the all-consuming barrage of Tweets, wall posts, and texts on your phone while maintaining the mysterious image of an &amp;quot;intellectual.&amp;quot; Luckily, last week the Poetry Foundation released an iPhone poetry app, with a searchable catalogue of more than 1,400 poems by writers like Pablo Neruda, Shakespeare, and T.S. Eliot. Whether you need a line to impress the bookish guy at Starbucks with, or you&amp;#039;re staying up at night trying to place that stanza that you memorized in 8th grade English, the new app is an instantaneous fix for all of your poetry-related needs. [Media Bistro]\u2014V.S. Photo: Getty Images "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
<http://www.elle.com/culture/books/news/a13349/scrap-book-mark-twains-100-year-old-memoir-summer-book-festivals-more-4612/>