Zach Baron had heard rumors of a high school football rivalry between Jim Carroll and Gil Scott-Heron.  He discusses it at The Daily.

• Alex Gilvarry talks to NPR about From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant. 

• Edith Wharton: born into wealth, great writer, kinda awkward.

• Pay attention to this Leonard Cohen kid who has a poem in this week’s New Yorker.  He’s gonna be huge.

• We’re living in William Gibson’s future.  The New York Times on Gibson’s Distrust That Particular Flavor.

• At Slate: Matthew Yglesias takes a look at the book The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics.

• Listen to some new Dirty Three.

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