Bites: Russian chess, Franzen is #1, Murakami interviews, craziest town hall EVER, and more

Yeh, how did Russians get so good at chess?

HTML Giant: Mazel tov on turning one year old.

Lit.

  • A.V. Club says “here are the rest of the books we think you should read for 2009”.  Lame.

Politics

Music

  • Carrie Brownstein went to see Marianne Faithful, and wrote about it.

Misc.