At the Telegraph, Roya Nikkhah looks back at the unpublished letters of some of Britain’s greatest writers that reveal what they really thought of the controversial Lady Chatterley’s Lover.
British Writers On Lady Chatterley’s Lover
The Klingon Word for Spoon is “baghneQ”
Lapham’s Quarterly has a new podcast about “the weird world of invented languages” such as Klingon, Dothraki, and Esperanto.
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Nerdist Wilco
A Nerdist podcast featuring Wil Wheaton and Wilco's Jeff Tweedy in which Tweedy discusses his path to becoming a musician, how his kids like having "a rockstar for a dad," and lets listeners in on their sound check at The Wiltern? Well, there goes your Monday afternoon.
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“I Will Ruin Him”
Creative writing teachers ply a hazardous trade. Don’t believe us? Then maybe this frightening tale -- excerpted from an upcoming book, Give Me Everything You Have, which you can read more about in our preview -- will help change your mind.
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Details are vague
China Miéville on apocalyptic London for The New York Times Magazine: "Standing so straight on a raised dais, in so immaculate a uniform that he looks like a ventriloquist’s dummy, the Metropolitan Police Service’s new commissioner, Bernard Hogan-Howe, tells the conference in an avuncular voice about his plan for 'total policing. ' He is enthusiastic but nebulous. Details are vague."
Dispatch from Mississippi
Students from the Mississippi Schools for Mathematics and Science share poems and essays about life in their home state, inspired by William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Richard Wright.
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Of Rainfall and Fluffy Bathrobes
You've probably heard the internet adage, "If it exists, there is a porn of it." Never has that been truer than in the case of the political erotica of 2016. From a particularly colorful Cruz/Rubio series: “'Who is this Hillary you’ve been texting?' Rubio asks Cruz. 'Saying things like ‘meet me when Marco’s not home,’ ‘I can hook you up,’ ‘what’s the price’ … don’t act all naïve right now!'"
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History of the Most Widely Used Font
Katherine Eastland has written an interesting piece on the history of Times New Roman.
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