Pride and Prejudice gets illustrated for its 200th birthday.

Nicole Krauss has a story in this week’s New Yorker, and she talked to Deborah Treisman about it at Page Turner.

“When I’m not writing I feel an awareness that something’s missing.” Jennifer Egan at Salon.

Why did men stop wearing high heels?

The Coen Brothers vs. the Beatnik Curse.

David Mamet wrote a weird pro-gun piece for Newsweek with an Isaac Bashevis Singer sounding title. Michael Tomasky responds to it.

Post-3o Rock Tina Fey wants to do a Mean Girls musical.

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