As usual The Onion nails it

Bunch of phonies mourn JD Salinger

Personal finance Twitter?

You've got to be kidding me.  This will never ever take off.  They really don't get it at all!

Hard Rain Falling

If you can catch up with me on Hard Rain Failling, I'd love to have a conversation on it. This is a very good book.

This NYRB Classics Series is the future, I think, or part of it. Here are all these out-of-print wonders. Here is a strong name for separating the wheat from the chaff. Put the two together and you've got a business model.

Monkeytalk

Perhaps it's a recent rewatching of Galaxy Quest or the recent release of The Invention of Lying (which I haven't seen yet), but it struck me when reading about deciphering the language of chimps that scientists figure out vocabulary from long, hard observation, but test usage mainly by telling whoppers--"Look! A cheetah!" It won't be long before Campbell's monkeys develop a new suffix that means, "according to the jerk."

Overview of upcoming books

Millions article does in ten minutes what it would take you days to cobble together on your own...

Workshop reunion?

Somehow my newsletter got misplaced. Could someone post the details of this here?  When, where, etc.  Anks.

Yep

Junot Diaz on 2010 in, of all places, the WSJ.

Vintage Ad Browser

Serious, long-term fun available here.