The Protestor is the Time magazine Person of the Year.  The magazine’s managing editor, Kurt Andersen, explains why.

• The Atlantic takes a look at 50 or so fantastic years of the New York Review of Books.

• At The Nervous Breakdown: Sabina Murray on the women of famous novels by Jonathan Franzen and Jeffrey Eugenides.

• David Haglund at Slate wonders if people pay more for houses once owned by famous writers?  With that, Vol. 1 is ready to bid one trillion dollars on eBay for John Updike’s house.

• Vanity Fair reacts to GQ’s oral history of menswear blogging.

• Ted Leo, Wesley Eisold from Cold Cave, and a bunch of other folks you like share their favorite things of 2011 at the Matador Matablog.

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