Happy 90th birthday, Stan Lee.

SPIN on Wayne Coyne’s very strange 2012.

At the London Review of Books, Christopher Tayler reviews Richard Bradford’s The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin.

Mike Faloon on Rev. Nørb’s book and Nick Fury’s eyepatch.

Young Money Poetry, taking place on 12/30 at Microscope Gallery, looks like a fine reading.

Our own Tobias Carroll looks at two new collections of Ursula K. Le Guin’s short fiction.

Zach Barocas (Bells≥/Jawbox/The Cultural Society) on Flannery O’Connor (and much more).

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