Today is Billy Bragg’s birthday.  Please feel free to spend the entire day listening to Talking with the Taxman about Poetry.

• How the Los Angeles Review of Books plans to bring LA to the top of the literary cities list.

• What would Rudyard Kipling’s Mowgli listen to?

• Getting hooked on George RR Martin.

• Dalton Trumbo gets the credit he deserved.

• Want to write a pop culture book that will sell at Urban Outfitters?  The Awl breaks down how you can do it.

• Keith Olbermann calls Ted Nugent an asshole.

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