If on a Summer’s Day a Television A city’s orphans are the furniture on its streets, left out for garbage or an enterprising upholsterer. San Francisco photographer Heather Champ examines her town’s left-behinds.

Ronald Reagan and Reading Proust In a town of A-list-worship and ever younger, hotter scribblers, the New Yorker Festival is a two-day freak-out for all things scribed. Reporter Choire Sicha braved the lit-sters for every reading he could schmooze his way into, including the now-infamous Wolfowitz riots.

To Tell You the Truth As the journalism world feeds on its own frenzy, Sarah Hepola confronts an intimate past with exposed Times fabricator Jayson Blair, and her own history of exaggeration.

Behind the Scenes: Oprah Cancels Book Club The fate of literature has always been uncertain. In recent times the path seemed secure, guarded by Updike and Barnes & Noble tote bags. Then, disaster struck. Publishers crashed their Mercedes, agents sold their leather blazers. Veteran investigator Joshua Allen reports on the tragedy from within Oprah’s private chambers.