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)
- “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?
Music
- Dirty Projectors played New Yorker Festival, and Indiechik tells us what went down
- Patti Smith is making appearances.
