“All I could think of upon hearing this was that vibrating moment when the young Jay Gatz, not yet Gatsby, sees his future arrive in the guise of a yacht dropping anchor on Lake Superior.” – The real life of Alan Feuer in the New York Times.

• John Steinbeck’s dispatches from the Vietnam War.

• Book Boroughing has their picks for the PEN World Voices Festival.

• Tolstoy and Dostoevsky do battle for the hearts of readers.

• Macmillan and Penguin standing their ground.

• Sasha Frere-Jones offers his verdict on Kraftwerk at MoMA.

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