Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Lit.

The Millions have an essay, “A Bolaño Syllabus.”  That’s all, nothing witty.  Just read it.

• Tablet Magazine, happy to point out that Where the Wild Things Are has “profoundly Jewish roots,” calls Paste Magazine’s essay which informs this theory “overwrought.” 
  

• The Wizarding World of Harry Potter: Once a dream, now a reality.
  

• L Magazine interviews Stephen Elliott, author of The Adderall Diaries.

• Google may modify its online book deal (Thanks, Boston Globe)

• Dear Conversational Reading, Mainstream publishing mystifies us as well.

• David Byrne talks to USA Today about his book Bicycle Diaries.

Music

• Mountain Goats on Colbert.  Amazing.

• Alan Gilbert debuted as the director of the Philharmonic.

• RIP Mary (Thanks, Boing Boing)

• Thom Yorke and Bon Iver: On a Hot Topic tour?

Sports

• WFMU on Dock Ellis and the LSD no-hitter.
  

• Alright, the little girl throwing the baseball back is pretty cute.  But MLB had to get all greedy about the video.