“Describing Joshua Cohen’s wonderful and elliptical novel A Heaven of Others is a bit like attempting to rehash an acid trip—no analysis can quite do justice to the feel of the experience.” – Adam Wilson reviews Joshua Cohen’s A Heaven of Others at Bookforum.

• Somewhere in the world there is a collaboration between Blur and poet Michael Horovitz.

• Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections is officially a thing on HBO.

• The new Atlas Sound album Parallax is streaming at the New York Times.  It is very much worth your time.

• There’s also a new Reigning Sound song in the world.

• Spin picks the 40 greatest comedy albums.  (A certain Vol. 1 editor is a little pissed at the lack of Don Rickles on the list, but what can we do?)

• Amelia Earhart had her own clothing line.