Mailer, Updike, Bellow, and Salinger are all gone:  America’s greatest literary generation is over.

• Aaron Lake Smith writes about a coffee shop in Cairo, Il.

• Jean-Paul Sartre’s eyes.

• McSweeney’snamesake, has passed away.

• Wes Anderson, Stephen O’Malley, Johnny Depp, and other American “artist types” living in Paris.

• Yes, Superchunk is awesome.