Yeah yeah, it’s Jack Kerouac’s birthday, but it’s also Darryl Strawberry’s.

• Is Penguin ripping off Melville House’s cover design ideas?

• At The Millions: novels about cults.

• What do Ulysses, Gravity’s Rainbow, and Moby-Dick have in common?  Apparently they’re all overrated according to this list.

• Hillary Clinton at Newsweek and The Daily Beast’s Women in the World summit.