Jean RhysDonald Westlake as Richard Stark wrote of the abyssal Parker
Vegas cop doubles as a poet
Hitchens on Stieg Larsson (ht Arts & Letters Daily via 3:AM)
Hidden sensory system in human skin
A review of a Dostoevsky biography
Le Clézio's intro existentialism reading list (ht Piece of Monologue)
Yale's Modernism Lab (ht Twitchelmore via 3:AM)
Intriguing piece on William Gass by Nick Ripatrazone at Quarterly Conversation
Michael Gazzaniga's Gifford Lectures
Mavis Gallant's stories reviewed
SCTV's version of Jane Eyre (on YouTube) (ht Mr. Waggish)
On Lispector's Hour of the Star and a review of Benjamin Moser's Lispector biography
Who controls African literature?
Terrifying fairy-tales -- speaking of which, a very concise Grimm's tale
Oh, poor Judy Garland
Blossom Dearie singing 'The Surrey With the Fringe on Top':
