- This just in! Senator Barack Obama has “palled around” with the notorious constitutionalist Richard Posner.
- The good folks at Hotel St. George Press interview Taryn Simon, the artist behind the brilliant Index of the Hidden and Unfamiliar.
- Jonathan Franzen’s remembrance of David Foster Wallace is quite moving…
- …as are the Elizabeth Bishop stanzas that conclude this sterling essay on her lifelong correspondence with Robert Lowell.
- Alas, the only way to offer you recollections of the late George Plimpton was to link to The Daily Beast.
- That long profile in Rolling Stone of DFW by David Lipsky that everyone’s been talking about is now online.
- Venerable fishwrap The Christian Science Monitor goes online only with its daily edition.
- Ten of the best circadian novels: “novels that fit all their action into a single day.”
- Sarah Palin and code-switching
- We may never tire of “This Is Just to Say” parodies.
- Our revels, not quite ended?: Royal Shakespeareans read celebrity porno dialogue (headphones recommended for those at work).
- Half a year late, Russia! Magazine has made its translation guide to Russian literature available online.
- Over at More Intelligent Life, you can find an audio interview with a Booker Prize judge.
- Finally, MiL‘s parent publication, The Economist makes its endorsement.