That’s Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln for the Dec. 2012 film “Lincoln,” which is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals.  (Via)

• “It was the weekly meeting of The New Inquiry, a scrappy online journal and roving clubhouse that functions as an Intellectuals Anonymous of sorts for desperate members of the city’s literary underclass barred from the publishing establishment.” – The New Inquiry gets a big writeup at the New York Times.

• Tired of signing every hot contemporary author up for television deals, HBO is gonna make some William Faulkner films.

• You can ban Judy Blume, but you can’t stop the love that most people feel for her.

• Publishers Weekly gives us the worst book ever.

• Bon Iver is probably going to win a Grammy.

• “What Fugazi would have sounded like if they were from Manchester circa 1978, had no hardcore pedigree and had their stuff put out on the Hyped 2 Death reissue series.” – Jason Diamond talks about the Australian band Eddy Current Suppression Ring at Impose.

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