Luc Sante on Geoff Dyer at Bookforum.  Scott Esposito on Luc Sante on Geoff Dyer at Conversational Reading.

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• We live in magical times when Bill Murray plays FDR.

• L Magazine talks to The Pains of Being Pure at Heart.

• Jim Henson’s 1969 pilot for “The Wizard of Id.” How did this not become a show?