An essay on Paul Bowles lust for traveling.

• Folks on Twitter try to come up with names for Michele Bachmann’s forthcoming memoir.

• Three trailers for the upcoming film adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s story collection Ecstasy.

• Captain Ahab gets a mixtape.

• Madonna’s Sex book is still in vogue.  (Get it?  Like the song…)

• One of the last of the old Delta bluemen, David “Honeyboy” Edwards,” has died at the age of 96.