Today is the shared birthday of Charlotte Brontë, Iggy Pop, and Robert Smith.  We think that should make this day a national holiday of some sort.

• “Sense and Sensibility: The Musical.”  No, this isn’t a Mel Brooks gag.

• We are still not sick of Elif Batuman.  She writes about life after the success of The Possessed, and the time she asked Jonathan Franzen for pot.

• Top 5 conversations I’d like to sit in on: Tina Fey hanging out with Steve Martin.

• The Daily Beast discuses the deaths of Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros in Libya.

• Wavves makes a comic book.