For Bookforum, Philip Nobel’s review essay on The Eternal City: “Despite New Yorkers’ powerful nostalgia for the Gotham-that-was, the city’s urban ecology has always thrived on change.”

• There’s a new monthly online lit mag, The Collagist, by Dzanc Books.

• Field Guide to the Snob: The Seinfeld Effect.

• Like Jane Austen? Don’t read zombie lit! Read some of these books instead.

• Are shortened url’s bad for the health of the web?

• Finally, has Google found a Stairway to Heaven in Brooklyn??