- io9 offers up “The Twenty Science Fiction Novels that Will Change Your Life,” from Frankenstein to Pattern Recognition. (via)
- Cathleen Schine on the charms of Peter Carey
- The “Thomas Bernhard cult” claims a new initiate.
- F.O.T.M. (Friend of The Millions) Lydia Millet talks about “endangered species, the idea of motherhood, and her stint at Hustler.”
- “Why do scribblers make drinking their second art? For one thing, it primes them for their task.” Writers and booze.
- Some American Studies undergrads at The University of Virginia have put together an online exhibit titled “The New Yorker Magazine in the 1930s.”
- NPR’s “In Character” segment considers Hawthorne’s Hester Prynne.
