Mayor Bloomberg is eliminating thousands of teaching jobs in NYC.  This is probably a really bad idea, and we think Bloomberg could find better ways to fix the city’s budget rather than screwing with its future.

• Look at these literary Twitter folks!  Maud Newton, Emma Straub, Sadie Stern, and others in Paper Mag.

• J.D. Salinger and S.J. Perelman: The literary influences of Woody Allen.  (Via Maud Newton’s Twitter…of course)

• Kenny G. (the one from WFMU, not the clarinet player) is going to the White House to read some poetry.