Book News: Blake's Cottage, Shakespeare's Editor: The New Yorker A French production company has announced the completion of a feature film about author Michel Houellebecq's mysterious "disappearance" in 2011, starring the writer as himself. Pippa Middleton is taking legal action against the authors of "When One is Expecting: A Posh Person's Guide to Pregnancy and Parenting," which began as a Twitter account parodying the party-planning tips in Middleton's guidebook "Celebrate." "Veronica Mars" creator Rob Thomas will co-write a mystery-book series featuring the characters from the television show. William Blake's West Sussex cottage is up for sale. NPR talks to New York Times Magazine correspondent Mark Leibovich about his book "This Town," an account of Washington D.C."s sycophantic and greed-driven culture, which comes out today. At the Guardian, Saul Frampton speculates on whether the Italian linguist and lexicographer John Florio had a hand in editing Shakespeare's First Folio. To my great regret, I no longer know how to be lazy, and summer is no fun without sloth. Indolence requires patience - to lie in the sun, for instance, day after day - and I have none left. At the New York Review of Books blog, the poet Charles Simic on the pleasures of summertime laziness.