Josh Spilker at Impose on the Moby-Dick illustrations of Matt Kish. We talked to Mr. Kish in 2009.

• Speaking of drawing literary giants… 

• “I invited the cute gay poets right away,” Mr. Dimitrov said. “I sort of had a list of gays that I wanted to come, and some of them that I wanted to sleep with.” – Wilde Boys Poetry Salon founder Alex Dimitrov to the New York Times.

• On the smell of old books.

• Pictures surface of Helena Bonham Carter as Miss Havisham.

• Vintage photos of steam locomotives in the nighttime.

• Edward Champion talks with Weird Al Yankovic.