From Jane Eyre to Ponyboy: a top ten list of best angsty teenagers in literature.

• Today is the day that Elia Kazan, Buddy Holly, and Chrissie Hynde was born on.

• Dan Sinker’s book, The F***ing Epic Twitter Quest of @MayorEmanuel, is excerpted at Wired.

• We know you’re up late at night worrying about what the poor Borders CEO is going to do now that he’s laid off all those rank-and-file employees.  Well rest assured, that everything is going to be okay with the huge severance package he’s going to get.

• Vulture digs up the least flattering quotes from the n+1 piece on Pitchfork.

• Karen Abbott on the life and crimes of the 19th century criminal mastermind “Old Mother” Mandelbaum.