The Japanese photographer that shot the photos for the book Take Ivy has passed away.

You pretty much need to read this piece on Flannery O’Connor’s peacocks.

Why President Obama should read Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 on his vacation.

What it’s like to hang with Woody Allen.

Joanna Newsom will be in Paul Thomas Anderson’s adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Inherent Vice.

The problem with modern-myth making in literature.

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