• You know, I worship Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair as much as the next literature geek, and lord knows it’s sent me into my own dark whirlpools of angst, but I’m not sure I’d look to Maurice Bendrix for wisdom after a break-up.

• Mark Sarvas, who knows from Hollywood, considers the dangers of autobiographical fiction in light of Brando’s posthumous novel.

• Virginia Woolf’s lighthouse will shine on.

• Stephany Aulenback and Sean Carman are namechecked in a review of Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans.

• Nextbook’s new podcast series includes reflections from Shalom Auslander on rereading Leonard Michaels’ I Would Have Saved Them If I Could.