Daily Beast innovator, Tina Brown, interviews Philip Roth.  Watch it.

Lit., Publishing, and the Internet

• Richard Nash on the “Continuous Permanent Reinvention of Publishing.“(via The Rumpus)

• The novels of Rand and Nader, in comparison.

• Emdashes on Wallace Shawn and John Lehr in conversation for the New Yorker festival.

• A Conversation About the Internet, created by The Rumpus.

• Tao Lin reads…signs.

• How we live and breathe marketing.

Misc.

• So we’re clear: Baby Einstein will not make you a baby Einstein.

• Forget the rainforest, pastrami sandwiches are endangered!

Politics

• Obama’s skipping Copenhagen to accept his Nobel.  You’d think they could coordinate this stuff.