Karen Russell talks to the Bat Segundo Show about her latest book, Swamplandia! The book was also the cover story for the Sunday Book Review.

• To celebrate 100 years of Reagan, Mother Jones digs up a 1984 issue that included Kurt Vonnegut, Studs Terkel, Al Franken and a bunch of fantastic artwork that tries to imagine what four more years of The Gipper would hold.

• “I am putting my money on Spinoza and not on Descartes.” – Commentator for this Guardian piece on Spinoza.

• Kid Millions of Oneida talks to Rick Moody about rock and roll books.

• AOL buys the Huffington Post for $315 million. Writers will still be writing for free — except now for a huge corporation.

• Cairo, 1938, in technicolor.