The IRS phone dirge puts my life on hold

The psychology of hold music has come a long way since the 80s – as I found out when lost in the tax service’s musical fog

Tom Hiddleston proves he can sing in first clip from Hank Williams biopic

British actor releases footage of himself performing Move It on Over in I Saw the Light in advance of Toronto film festival premiere

Terry Gilliam laughs off Variety’s dead Python blunder

Film director takes to Facebook to apologise for his own ‘death’ after website publishes premature obituary

The digital debate is done, and the reading public are the winners

The ebook debate has moved on from zealots versus luddites – and has empowered readers

Blinded by technology: has our belief in Silicon Valley led the world astray?

In Geek Heresy, computer expert Kentaro Toyama warns against our over-reliance on technology and explains why people, not smart tools, are the key to social change

Pulp fiction? Not while I can still hang on to a box or two of my old books

Moving house highlights a painful truth: an appetite for the ephemeral does not entirely offset the wrench of losing a large chunk of library

Audiobooks are booming – and now there’s a chart to prove it

The Bookseller’s inaugural top 20 list, led by print bestsellers, is notable for the absence of children’s titles

My Mother’s House explores death, grief and memories as a Minecraft poem

Poet Victoria Bennett and digital artist Adam Clarke’s ‘poem-world’ shows popular video game as a platform for art and expression

Russian publisher prints books about Putin under names of western authors

Writers consider legal action against Moscow publishing house after discovering series about Russian president circulated in their names. The Moscow Times reports

Ebooks are changing the way we read, and the way novelists write

Our attention spans have shortened, we’re distracted, and authors have changed their style to suit, but these changes are part of the wider digital transformation

Robots that write fiction? You couldn’t make it up

Computer-generated fiction might seem a tipping point for artificial intelligence, but it could help us to understand the world we live in

‘Video games are something to educate yourself about, to embrace’

The author of Death By Video Game, Simon Parkin, on what made him write the book and why he thinks the industry can overcome sexism and racism

‘Is nothing sacred?’: Twitter responds to news of Jumanji remake

Sony Pictures’ slate for 2016 and 2017, which includes remakes of the Robin Williams family film and sequels to the Will Smith action movie Bad Boys, has prompted cries of ‘too soon’ and ‘travesty’