It’s Brian Wilson’s 69th birthday.  That makes today about as holy as Christmas.

• We’re fans of sex-positive feminist who uses a Norman Mailer quote for their book’s epigraph.  That’s probably why we like this Susie Bright interview so much at The Rumpus.

• Nothing like reading Christopher Hitchens trying to rip David Mamet a new ha-ha hole.

• The Onion just wants a Pulitzer.

• It’s nice to hear stories about libraries opening for a change. In the case of the Spinney Memorial Library in Wareham, MA. it’s actually reopening it’s doors for the first time in 65 years.