NBC picked up the show Apocalipstick, which will be written and produced by the very talented Julie Klausner.

• The Hairpin breaks down how to write romance novels.

• Fixating on a Willa Cather sentence.

• Joseph Heller didn’t mind war that much.

• Steve Martin, Gillian Welch, and Ed Helms in a bluegrass mockumentary is probably the best thing of the day.

• Tom Waits is interviewed while sitting in a barber shop.

• Can somebody please front us the money to buy John Hughes’ former mansion in Lake Forest, IL.?

• Does the band British Sea Power really deserve a biography?  Am I missing something because I’m an American?  Either way, Do It For Your Mum, is reviewed by 3:AM Magazine.