Colson Whitehead, zombies, and Joy Division.  These things are linked.

• Thinking about a post-Borders world from the point of view of a person who doesn’t have any other bookstore options.

• Three poems by Terese Svoboda over at The Awl.

• Pitch your book at Greenlight Bookstore.

• Composers Dalit Hadass Warshaw, Yoav Gal, and Judd Greenstein, are profiled.

• Peter Beinart discuses “Obama’s Jeffersonian turn,” and how America’s weakening global influence.