A 1959 recording of Flannery O’Connor reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find.”

• Jeffrey Eugenides hangs out in England and makes a video.

• Wayne Koestenbaum is interviewed on The Bat Segundo Show.

• The Nervous Breakdown gives us their 2011 Nobbies, and it’s a fine list.

• Cyberpunk writer Neal Stephenson is profiled in the New York Times.

• Jonathan Lethem on Philip K. Dick.

• Forever 21 has pulled the Flipper shirt.

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