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1. Regardless of how it does at the box office, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is already a social media blockbuster. [via Mashable]
2. Banned or not, why that Catcher in the Rye sequel never stood a chance with readers. [via Slate]
3. Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah announces his solo debut. [via Stereogum]
4. Considering Bush-Cheney-era torture through art [via Modern Art Notes]
5. Famed book agent Andrew Wylie has snatched Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul from his old partner/mentor Gillon Aitken. [via Gawker]