“Dark wizard ain’t got no charms. They’re the foot-soldiers of a muggle-hatin’ mass-murderin’ maniac and they need to be destroyed.”

Lit.

• John Keats gets the big screen treatment (thanks The Millions)

• Michael Kimball interviews Gary Lutz (Thanks The Faster Times)

• Well, now we know what Neil Gaiman’s library looks like (Thanks Boing Boing)

• “Jane Austen is dead. Get over it.” (Thanks Indichik)

• Deckfight pick their top five Southern novels, and take the ballsy route of excluding any Faulkner.

Music

• “Ah, the wonders of emo.”  Carrie Brownstein on Sunny Day Real Estate.

• Thurston Moore on the set of Gossip Girl =’s indie cred?  (Thanks Flavorwire)

• The 941 on Yo La Tengo’s newest album, Popular Songs.

• The Scowl reviews Ty Segall.

• This video for Cass McCombs’s  “The Executioners Song” is pretty brilliant.