Jarvis Cocker promises to read some Gabriel García Márquez at the start of his weekly BBC podcast.  Does he deliver?  Find out.

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• Justin Taylor spurs some good old fashioned religious debate.

• James Franco’s favorite Criterion films.

• The Huffington Post lists ten library books frequently read more than others. Nothing surprising.

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