Recommended Reading: Millions contributor Michelle Huneven on Charles Baxter’s There’s Something I Want You to Do.
“Our sturdiest atheists”
Yankee Spinach Foxtrot
Wilco appeared in a Popeye comic strip, and they also released an animated music video featuring the sailor, Olive Oyl, and Bluto.
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“Can’t you stay? Can’t I go with you?”
Recommended Reading: “The Shallows” by Christopher R. Alonso.
Felt Succeeds Where Words Fail
Spike Jonze and Olympia Le-Tan collaborate on a short, creepy, bookish sex romp, animated in felt and set in Shakespeare and Company. Via The Dish.
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Alexandra Huynh Is Speaking On Her Own Terms
Newly appointed youth poet laureate Alexandra Huynh discusses the significance of her new role and the motivation behind her own poetry.
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Tartt on TV
Boris is coming to the big screen. Nina Jacobson, the producer behind The Hunger Games, has acquired the rights to adapt Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. Whether it will be a film or TV miniseries is still up for question, but if the actors need any help getting into character, check out our essay on identifying with Theo and learn how to tweet like Boris.
Raunchiness in YA
Tracy Clark-Flory has written a defense of “raunchy” teen literature for Salon.
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Refuge in Reading
It’s World Refugee Day and Book Riot has 100 (yes, 100!) reading recommendations. Meanwhile, earlier this year, Ted Gioia proposed, Kanye-style, that Vladimir Nabokov‘s Pnin was actually the greatest refugee novel of all time.
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