I didn’t think it was possible, but I think I may have found my favorite awful library book.

Lit.

• The interactive Proust questionnaire over at Vanity Fair.

• NBA star Steve Nash and Cormac McCarthy discussed in this article.

• Appreciation for Alan Moore’s brilliant graphic novel, From Hell.

• Three Guys One Book show love for Emily St. John Mandel.

• Al Gore: Poet.

• The Hold Steady’s Craig Finn talks about writing the adaptation to Klosterman’s Fargo Rock City.

• Robert Birnbaum discusses Will Self’s latest, Liver.

Music

• Jack Rose, remembered over at WFMU.

• The Jewishness of Marc Bolan.

• Entrance Band have a new video.  Chronic Youth has it up.

• Finally, another Awesome Tape From Africa.