- Want to catch up on John Updike in a single summer?
- Dick Cavett reminisces about the time Updike and John Cheever appeared on his talk show… together.
- Clancy Martin on his failed attempt to become the world’s largest maker of Fauxbergé eggs and how he evaded the Russian police.
- Ward Sutton literalizes the idea of the cartoonish critique at the Barnes & Noble Review. First up: T.C. Boyle’s The Women.
- Street artists smell a conspiracy around the recent arrest of “Hope”-monger Shepard Fairey, the artist formerly known as Giant.
- On the 30th anniversary of the Islamic revolution in Iran, our friend Porochista Khakpour looks back.
- WNYC presents streaming audio (mp3 link) of Zadie Smith’s NYPL talk on then-President-elect Obama.
- Fresh Air’s Maureen Corrigan raves about Yu Hua’s Brothers.
- More heads roll in the publishing industry.
- How close did we come to economic apocalypse?
- Glamorous publishing people: “No, there is no glamour left in publishing.”
- Food for your ears: “The Dinner Party Download is a fast and funny ‘booster shot’ of unconventional news, cuisine and culture to help you win this weekend’s dinner party.” Sarah Shun-lien Bynum was a recent guest.
- Amid stimulus package largess, arts getting left out in the cold.
- Epilogue, a new mag that marries short writings, art, and music.
- File under: links you probably don’t need to click on
