Well this is just in time for Shark Week: Bret Easton Ellis to team up with Raging Bull and Taxi Driver writer, Paul Schrader, to write a shark film.  This is also officially the second day in a row that we’ve led with a Brett Easton Ellis Bite.

• Via the Twitter feed of Sasha Frere-Jones: The 1967-68 Norton lectures of Jorge Luis Borges.

• Sadie Stein of The Paris Review goes to see Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness, and we end up finding out she’s the granddaughter of the man who wrote the screenplay for the Fiddler on the Roof film.  See what happens when you read?  You learn interesting things like this!

• A Continuous Lean went to the Newport Folk Festival.

• Jónsi from Sigur Rós will be doing the score to Cameron Crowe’s We Bought a Zoo.

• Raven Sings the Blues talks about Fungi Girls.  (You might remember we said that their album is one of our favorites of the year.)