Patricia Highsmith (pictured above) and Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Woolcott, and Julian Barnes celebrate birthdays this weekend.

The Choose Your Patricia Highsmith Tumblr might be worth looking at to celebrate the author’s birthday.

Virginia Woolf on dancing and music.

“The Pop World of Ballard and Burroughs” at 3:AM Magazine is a worthy weekend read.

Rachel Cantor talks music at Largehearted Boy.

The New York Obscura Society is having a grand cocktail party in a Masonic Hall.

They’re moving a Frank Lloyd Wright house from New Jersey to Arkansas.

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