Remember that time that Nick Cave told MTV that he didn’t want their stinking award?

• NY Tyrant takes the Best American Nonrequired Reading books to task at Vice.

• Wesley Stace talks to the New York Times.

• The cult of the sentence.

• George Soros finally responded to Glenn Beck’s (anti-Semitic) frequent attacks.

• Home cooking with Amy Sedaris.

• James Franco asks Judd Apatow how to host the Oscars.

• William F. Buckley on pot.

NY Times Sunday Book Review Highlights

• Joyce Carol Oates’s A Widow’s Story: A Memoir is reviewed.  Not quite sure how you review a memoir about somebody’s husband dying, but since it’s Joyce Carol Oates…

• Julia Scheeres reviews Deb Olin Unferth’s memoir, Revolution: The Year I Fell in Love and Went to Join the War.  Calls it “brave, soulful.”