This week’s edition of The Happiest Hour comes from the marketplace of a hotel perched on the hillsides surrounding Steel City. In other words: the fringes of civilization. How do I know this? This marketplace is closing in 30 minutes. How is one to survive the 3pm slump without cold brew?

Here’s what you missed this week:

• Reese Witherspoon is about to be dethroned by Jenna Bush Hager. (Entertainment Weekly)
• Anyone know how Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance sold more copies in its first year than Song of Solomon and The Grapes of Wrath? Also: who sanctioned that title? (LitHub)
• Apparently, I’m putting The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People on my TBR list. (Washington Post)
• Behold: the definitive guide to judging everyone’s beach read. (LitHub)

Cheers,

EV