- Joan Didion on J.D. Salinger’s Franny and Zooey: “self-help copy … Positive Thinking for the upper middle classes … for Sarah Lawrence girls.”
- The depopulating Midwest and Northeast; Everyone’s still moving to the West and South.
- Slaves in revolt! The Birth of Nation wins biggest Sundance auction ever.
- Former staffer on Dr. Ben: “I think he’s just living in an alternative universe.”
- Neil deGrasse Tyson: Yes, dude, the world is indeed round.
- What music would you play at the Communism-themed prom?
- Get ready, black helicopter crowd, the UN might be coming for your sugary sodas.
- Peak iPhone might be here.
- The second biggest collection of U.S. case law going to a free online database thanks to Harvard.
- Is this sort of thing even shocking anymore?
- Reading the movies: A book lover’s guide to the Oscars.
- New York’s coolest bartender (he boxed Larry Holmes, married Obama’s former girlfriend), “a forlorn soul who reads books and can make a drink,” is going home to Serbia to reclaim his ancestral mansion.
- Print and read: Working for Playboy in the glory years as part of its “secret sisterhood” of women.
Chris Barsanti 