Schnapps and Kurt Weill in Rosie Schaap’s latest New York Times DRINK column.

Colin Dickey talks with Liberty Hardy at Book Riot. 

Borges, American Jews and the science fiction books Salman Rushdie once read (along with some other things as well).

Pauls Toutonghi’s Evel Knievel Days is reviewed at Los Angeles Review of Books.

Jon Stewart talks to some guy named Bill Clinton.

Why can’t New York quit the MetroCard?

Got 43 minutes? Watch this documentary on the making of Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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