Bites: So Many Wild Things, Gigantic Interviewed, Mr. Rochester is Dreamy, Nobels for the Small Press, 1989, Dirty Projectors at NYer Fest, and more

Wild Things: It’s Released! Did you know??

• Pitchfork interviews Spike Jonze.

• We’ve All Been Wondering Lately about “What Makes a Children’s Classic.”(NYT Arts Beat)

• Ohmahgawd–Wild Things, Wild Things, Wild Things.

Lit.

• This essay on the importance of the humanities is outstanding.(Harper’s)

• Gigantic is interviewed by Fictionaut.

• “But, reader, I loved him.”  On Charlotte Brontë’s Mr. Rochester as the most romantic character in literature.  Oh, yes.

• Reading!: the demand of literature

• From last week, The Millions on Lit’s Nobel Prize and new glories for the small press.

• Blah, blah, blah are writers these days risky enough?

• 1989!

Music

• Dirty Projectors played New Yorker Festival, and Indiechik tells us what went down

• Patti Smith is making appearances.