Dave Eggers, Michael Pollan, and other writers denounce the City of Oakland’s response to the Occupy protests.

• Professor Edith Wharton teaches class at HTML Giant.

• Mel Bosworth and Christy Crutchfield have a new e-chapbook out on Deckfight called The Five Lost Senses of Carl.

• Chip Kidd is going to write a Batman graphic novel.

• Gary Shteyngart talks to The Atlantic.

• So on that movie Anonymous about William Shakespeare…

• A 1976 documentary on the Weather Underground.

• Women from the 1930s dressed like mythological figures.