I’m a day late to the April Fool’s party. April 1st always registers in my mind as my sister’s birthday, so I tend to forget it’s the day when the gullible among us are most at risk. Yesterday, Ed Champion reported that Jane Smiley’s going to stop writing about horses, Martin Scorcese is going to direct the film adaptation of Richard Yates’s Revolutionary Road, and Jonathan Lethem is embarking on a five-year book tour.