Rebecca Returns

Joel Rice‘s “Flip” column for McSweeney’s discusses the culture of skateboarding. This week he interviews Cole Louison, author of The Impossible: Rodney Mullen, Ryan Sheckler, and the Fantastic History of Skateboarding.

A D Jameson has been writing daily updates about Magic: The Gathering as literature. Here’s part one of his HTMLGiant series. (And here’s part two, and here’s part three.)

Jonathan Chait takes a look at the (horrible) newspapers in Back to the Future, but he misses the most obvious criticism. That page layout is atrocious!

Carla Hayden became the first African American woman to be the Librarian of Congress on Wednesday.