The cult of Cocteau

• Want to try being like J.D. Salinger?  Don’t pay taxes, tweet, or keep the same e-mail address.  If that doesn’t work, just freak out about tiny things.

• A Ticket to the Circus, Norris Church Mailer’s memoirs about seeing Norman Mailer in the nude, is reviewed.  I think I’ve already made up my mind on this one.

• Good book people on Twitter.

• On Gary Shteyngart and food.

• Gahn Wilson’s Playboy cartoons get the book treatment.

• Intellectual feud: Bernard-Henri Lévy vs. Tariq Ramadan

• National Poetry Month salute Glenn Beck.

• Tobias Caroll on Ta-Nehisi Coates’s The Beautiful Struggle and Kevin Sampsell’s A Common Pornography.

• Marisa Meltzer and pals attempt to defend Alanis Morissette.

• From the Numero photo vault.