Pig-blood-flavored ice cream and Crispy Testicles anyone? Jennifer McLagan, Australian-born, Toronto-based author-chef, teaches us how to cook the rest of the animal in her new book, Odd Bits.
Odd Bits
Appearing Elsewhere: DFW Roundtable
Along with D.T. Max, Laura Miller, and Jason Kottke, I'll be participating in this week's discussion of Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip With David Foster Wallace over at New York Magazine.
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The Brothers Carrotmazov Was Taken
I'm not sure if you guys heard, but Elif Batuman joined Twitter a few days ago, and promptly seized the sweetest user alias on the site.
It Was A Dark and Stormy Night
What have you found in your grandparents' attics lately? Bet it wasn't a signed copy of Frankenstein.
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Plotto
Who, or what, is Plotto? Find out about the art of mechanized storytelling, or what a cardboard robot has to do with melodrama and Law & Order.
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The perils of befriending your heros.
David Bezmozgis's beautiful and painful essay on befriending his literary hero, Leonard Michaels.
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Atwood Adapted
Netflix and Hulu are set to adapt Margaret Atwood’s novels Alias Grace and The Handmaid’s Tale, respectively. Check out our own Edan Lepucki’s piece on Atwood’s vision of the future.
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From the Newsstand
This week has brought new issues of The Quarterly Conversation (including considerations of Herta Müller, Per Petterson, and Jonathan Swift); Lapham's Quarterly (The Arts & Letters issue, featuring Salman Rushdie); and Triple Canopy ("Hue and Cry")
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