The great Kanye West/Mellow Pages Library hoax of 2013. Bushwick Daily has even more on the hoax that turned into a big party.

Ivan Brunetti talks New Yorker covers.

Sam Sacks on Vasily Grossman at Page-Turner.

A.N. Devers has a story up at Recommended Reading.

Anybody want an abandoned castle in the Catskill Mountains? 

Let’s get shit-faced on some Downton Abbey wine.

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