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With a little help from Eastpak.

Along with his side gig, Jens Lekman has put out five albums. Now he’s collaborated with David Levithan on the novel “Songs for Other People’s Weddings.”

No bombs were found in any of the targeted venues, but threats left some “shaken.”

He turned “an insignificant trade house” into a powerhouse, publishing best sellers like “The Silence of the Lambs” and “All Creatures Great and Small.”

His father, Norman Rockwell, depicted his childhood on covers of The Saturday Evening Post. The worms came later.

A verbal gymnast on and off the page (as well as a musician and photographer), he was a founder of the Dark Room Collective, a community of writers, and fostered a boom in Black poetry.

Genevieve Kingston, Susan Lieu and Kao Kalia Yang explore the complicated lives of the women who raised them.

In Monica Wood’s rich new novel, “How to Read a Book,” death, prison and poetry become the catalyst for new beginnings.

Three new books make the case for music as medicine. In “The Schubert Treatment,” the most lyrical of the trio, a cellist takes us bedside with the sick and the dying.

These novels hinge on split-second decisions that change everything.