Greg Graffin, singer of the band Bad Religion, becomes an Ivy League professor at Cornell University.

• Fran Lebowitz takes a trip to Boston.

• Philip Roth isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.

• The Guardian reviewsthe book Sex, Bombs and Burgers: How War, Porn and Fast Food Created Technology as We Know it by Peter Nowak.

• At Boing Boing, the Sherlock Holmes graphic novel, The Valley of Fear, is discussed.

• The latest film adaptation of The Great Gatsby has its Tom Buchanan.