At Impose:  The Norman Mailer/James Frey connection.

• At Vice: New York Tyrant says that Brandon Hobson writes “real-sad writing.”  Find out for yourself.

• At Beatrice: Discussing The Instructions by Adam Levin.

• At NPR:  Nora Ephron getting older is funnier than you at pretty much any point in your life.

• The Awl were inspired by Tina Brown, and will now merge with any magazine that will have them

• At The Guardian:  French Maoists, The Rolling Stones, and Sartre all make appearances in this review of Richard Wolin’s The Wind from the East: French Intellectuals, the Cultural Revolution, and the Legacy of the 1960s