Buddy Holly negotiates a contract.

• Jack London, Ernest Hemingway, Anne Sexton, and other famous literary drunks and addicts.

• I interviewed Gary Shteyngart over at Jewcy.  He calls Isaac Bashevis Singer “nuts”.

• Cassettes From My Ex does Largehearted Boy’s Book Notes.

• Trying to get lucky? Try Goethe.

• Patti Smith and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein on the Book Review podcast.

Remembering Salinger

• Dave Eggers

• Felicia Sullivan

• Salinger and the butcher.

• Andy Borowitz says “Hollywood Eager to Finally Fuck Up Catcher in the Rye“

• The Onion