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Pentagram’s cryptograms

For the holidays, the design firm Pentagram sent out Decipher, a gorgeous book of cryptographic puzzles now reproduced online for your enjoyment. Solve them here.

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Dorothy Parker speaks

Penguin Classics posts a 1958 audio interview with Dorothy Parker about The Ladies of the Corridor, her play newly restored to print. (Via.)

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Houellebecq’s mom, interviewed

Ma Houellebecq calls her son a liar, an imposter, a parasite, and a stupid little bastard who as an infant had nanny goat’s poo. Her memoir is out in France today.

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