At The New York Times:  Peruvian Nobel laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa, discusses teaching Borges at an Ivy, investing his money, and the killer commute from Jersey to Manhattan: ““It’s very nice. But not if you take the train at 5 or 6 o’clock. It can be a Kafkaesque commute.”

• At Vice:  Blake Butler and NY Tyrant take HTML GIANT’S “Mean Week” on the road, and trash Jonathan Franzen over at Vice. Hilarity ensues.

• At Boing Boing: Star Trak characters reading Poe.

• At Jewcy: Using Gabriel García Márquez to address the Haitian Cholera Epidemic.

• At The Guardian: A British writer calls Mark Twain “the American.”  So this one goes out to you Twainy.