Meghan Cleary is an author and TV personality who lives in the Fairfax district of Hollywood. This is her take on four places she likes, and one place she doesn't.

Every year, the UK’s Literary Review gives out their Bad Sex Award, a prize that highlights and (dis)honors clumsy and often embarrassing descriptions of intimacy in literature. Last night, David Guterson took home the award for clunky scenes of incest from his novel, Ed King. The book is a modern take on the story of Oedipus, and although Guterson didn’t accept the award in person (as some authors have in the past), the Guardian reports he took the distinction well. “Oedipus practically invented bad sex,” he said, “so I'm not in the least bit surprised"

Saturday Night Live has a history of comedians and drug abuse. John Belushi and Chris Farley didn't make it but Darrell Hammond, best known for his political impressions of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, as well as the foul-mouthed Trebek-hating Sean Connery on Celebrity Jeopardy, managed to overcome his addictions. He is recounting tales of drug use and cutting in his new memoir God, If You’re Not Up There, I’m F*cked.

The travel experts at Jetsetter present Bon Voyage, a coffee table book that brings to life 24 of the best journeys the company planned over the past year. Purchase of the book is paired with a personal consultation with one of Jetsetter’s personal travel planners, chosen from a team of the world’s leading travel writers.

Harry Potter megafans have been flocking to Pottermore, an interactive game site based on the books by J.K. Rowling. What is essentially a Second Life for the kind of people who dressed up as wizards and witches for the films' opening nights, the site will provide additional content not found in the books or the movies, including background information about Harry Potter characters. All of this takes place within the world of Harry and his chums, and users will even get to enroll in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, proving that a major overhaul of the education system in the United States might not be so bad. More importantly, Pottermore hopefuls are worried that they'll be placed in an uncool house of wizards and witches!

There’s a certain breed of traveler who believes that calories consumed in transit don’t count -- they’re somehow left in the air along with airplane exhaust. How else can you account for the massive array of unhealthy snacks available at every turn, while sad salads languish for hours, strangled in plastic containers? Frequent travelers know how easy it is to give into temptation, so we spoke with Dr. Drew Ramsey, M.D., Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and co-author with Tyler Graham of the upcoming book The Happiness Diet, about practical eating tips for keeping yourself feeling good and working hard.

Colin Meloy, the high-pitched, baby-faced frontman of The Decemberists, has published the first novel in a trilogy of children's books with the help of his wife, illustrator Carson Ellis. The Wildwood Chronicles centers around Prue McKeel, a 12-year-old vegetarian from Portland whose baby brother is kidnapped by a murder of crows. Because of course it does.

It was as if the Fort Greene bookstore Greenlight had announced a secret indie rock show. Apparently when you're a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist who has been on Oprah and whose debut novel was turned into a film by Sophia Coppola, you're able to pack a standing-room only crowd of fans eagerly anticipating your new novel. And keeping it indie with an intimate reading at a small independent bookstore means you'll earn the affection of the young, hip crowd, many of whom took multiple pictures of Eugenides as he read from his new novel, The Marriage Plot.

The Magicians, Lev Grossman's novel about a young man who discovers that the magical world of his childhood fantasies actually exists, will be adapted into a drama series on Fox.

When you read Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections did you think to yourself, "Man, this story about old people and Midwestern family would be a great TV show"? Someone at HBO did. Franzen hit the New Yorker Festival yesterday for a talk with the mag's Editor-in-Chief David Remnick where he confirmed he is working on an adaptation of the book for the network as a four year television series. That's a long bet on an unproven show.