“Don’t expect me to be the same anymore.” – Henry Miller writes to Anaïs Nin in 1932.

Ezra Glinter at The Paris Review of the joy of Yiddish dictionaries.

This is what Tao Lin’s apartment is like.

Andrew Shaffer tells Largehearted Boy about the songs he listened to while writing  A Scandalous History of Wayward Authors.

Fizzy Lifting Drinks, and other fictional foods the folks at the A.V. Club would like to try.

Cleotha Staples of the Staple Singers has passed away.

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