Syd Barrett, Carl Sandburg, and Joan of Arc were all born on this day.

• Kate Christensen’s recipe for pork dumplings with scallion-ginger sauce.

• Vanity Fair runs Christopher Hitchens’ final column, “Charles Dickens Inner Child.”

• New fiction by J.E. Reich up at fwriction.  (Then check out Reich’s Sunda Story.)

• Björk is going to be hanging out in New York quite a bit.

• 3 words: Ancient British porn.

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