Weekend Bites: Dyson on Illmatic, National Bookstore Day, Bolaño “myth building”, Sesame Street, Dirty Projectors, and More.

Michael Eric Dyson wrote a book on Nas and his landmark album, Illmatic that is due out in January. Born to Use Mics is discussed in a few places:

Nah Right

Pitchfork

Daily Swarm

Lit.

• Philip Gourevitch is leaving the Paris Review.

• The Rumpus discusses Sigrid Nunez’s memoir relationship with Susan Sontag in the new issue of Tin House.

• Happy National Bookstore Day!

• Is the “myth building” around Bolaño getting to be too much?

• The Guardian reviews James Ellroy’s Blood’s a Rover.

Sesame Street is 40!

• Brooklyn Public Library is celebrating the shows birthday on Nov. 14th.

• SFGate talks about the man behind the bird.

Music stuff.

• Dirty Projectors live on Sirus XMU

Feline obsession.

• Miss Heather saves a bodega cat named Larry.

• “Stupid cat“.

Yum and “yum”.

• Arby’s is that low on the restaurant food chain?  Yeh, they are.

• Now Minetta Tavern on the other hand…

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