Today you should do birthday shots for Voltaire, Goldie Hawn, Björk, and Ken Griffey Jr.

• Robert Hass, the 70-year-old former Poet Laureate of the United States, writes an op-ed about being beaten by police at Occupy Berkeley.

• At Granta: Animating Bolaño.

• The Los Angeles Review of Books talks to Helen DeWitt.

• The Victorians: Original hoarders? 

• 3:AM Magazine talks to Alina Simone.

• Ted Leo and Titus Andronicus are playing an OWS benefit in Brooklyn tonight.

• Possibly the last Sonic Youth show ever?

• Smoking opium in Iran.

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