Tucked away off the main drag of the very wonderful (and slightly bearded) Green Man Festival, there’s a literature tent which will, on the Sunday, be featuring readings from Joe Dunthorne, Jon McGregor, and Simon Armitage, amongst others.

Jon will be reading, for the first time in public, stories from his forthcoming collection This Isn’t The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Someone Like You. Some of them are very short. Some of them are funny, sort of.

Tickets for Green Man have now sold out, but if you know someone lucky enough to be going you could maybe tell them to get to the literature tent at 2pm. And let’s hope no-one makes a bootleg video recording and sticks it up on youtube, eh?

Did you know Jon’s been made an Honorary Lecturer in the School of English Studies at the University of Nottingham? Indeed. And he’s keeping a blog (!) in preparation for it: On Learning to Read.

Jon’s got a piece in Five Dials, a really lovely .pdf literary magazine. You can download it for free here.

Actually, Jon would probably be mortified if anyone called him that. But that’s all the more reason to do it, right? …Just teasing, Jon! But the rumour’s true. Jon was made an honorary Doctor of Letters at the University of Nottingham on July 13th. You can watch part of the graduation ceremony, and Jon’s address, here.

In fifty years, when Jon’s kids are tracing their famous dad’s journeys, they’ll have to head to Norfolk for several reasons–not least of which is that he spent a while over the last two weeks taking part in the Worlds Literature Festival in Norwich.

…this Friday, May 29th, at 10 p.m., will feature some of Jon’s work, including a story that is, well, very short. You can listen online via iPlayer Find out more here.

…the Italian translation of Even the Dogs, is published this week. Marsala.it says “Neanche i cani è un romanzo pieno di furia e speranza, potente e universale. L’opera struggente di un autore che ha raccolto del fango e lo ha trasformato in oro”. Right, off to GoogleTranslate…

The Even the Dogs TV BookClub episode was repeated last week, and right in time Jon’s Italian editor sent along the link so that those outside of the UK can watch, too. It’s here, on youtube.

Have you ever wondered just how those sentences in Even the Dogs really ended? If so, you can read the endings to every broken sentence in Chapter 2 right over here.

If you do, and if you’ve been waiting for the Italian edition of Even the Dogs to come out, you’re in luck…it’s about to be published. If it’s a French translation you’re after, you don’t have long to wait…the translation’s finished, and waiting for publication.