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At The Elegant Variation, Jonathan Lethem talks Daniel Fuchs, Shirley Jackson, and “the utter and irreversible canonization” of Philip K. Dick.

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Author Bebe Moore Campbell has died of cancer. Her remarks on the LA riots, which happened outside her door, will always stay with me.

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I believe I’d flee the baronessa’s literary retreat/finishing school, too. That, or use the lobster fork to shove peas up my nose.

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Enjoy the syrupy, oblivious cheer of Paperback Believer, a Beatles-Monkees mash-up set to video. (Via.)

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Was Dave Eggers, who wrote a glowing introduction for the reissued Infinite Jest, against the book before he was for it? (More here and here.)

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