Doctors wanted to switch him o…

Doctors wanted to switch him off life-support – but he could hear every word but could not tell them he was alive. http://t.co/64eMOcdp

Steven Levy on the 1984 launch of the Mac. wired.com/wiredenterpris…

Hilarious. "@Misty_Lee: This still gets me. Every time. http://t.co/f2JnL58qTB"

The trouble with snooze buttons. m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/e…

Last week we almost fucking killed Richard Parker in the water tank... hollywoodreporter.com/feature/

Eerily appropriate. funnyasduck.net/wp-content/upl….

Not content with ruining my life by retiring, fucker also has to make me cry now with his speechifying. #ThankYouSachin, my ass.

(via @gradwolf) Rambling but very readable article on Pondy Bazaar - Chennai's shopping district. @shambrahm bit.ly/1cVJ7M4

Listen to This Chilling Audio as Crowd at Boston Symphony Learns President Kennedy Is Dead nation.time.com/2013/11/11/bos…

We'll try again in an hour

Gastromasochists have likened it to molten lava but it is nowhere close to being the world's hottest pepper. newyorker.com/reporting/2013…

What happened after JFK died has fully come to light 50 years later. esquire.com/print-this/fli…

Is James Baldwin America's Greatest Essayist? Ta-Nehisi Coates asks answers with customary eloquence. theatlantic.com/entertainment/…

Public Enemies: How social media is fueling gang wars in Chicago. wired.com/underwire/2013…

"The Ancient Roots of Punctuation" feedly.com/k/14rau0K

If you bought a print book from them, Amazon will soon let you buy Kindle books for cheap. (or free) amazon.com/gp/feature.htm…

RIP Elmore Leonard. Your masalas never failed to entertain, yet they oozed class.

(Personal favorite) Neil Gaiman leads Not the Booker prize shortlist feeds.theguardian.com/c/34708/f/6638…

Hired by a bitch to find scum. prospectmagazine.co.uk/blog/film-noir… (via the invaluable http://the feature.net)

Orhan Pamuk on how novels are 'middle class art' and the threat they face from sophisticated American TV. blogs.tnr.com/article/113948…

Today's must read - funny & scary:MI5 was founded based on the fantasies of a paranoid novelist: bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurt… via @theoncominghope

"The World's Top-Earning Authors: With '50 Shades,' E.L. James Debuts At No. 1 - Forbes" feedly.com/k/120QzCv

Lovely read. Pangs of a Patna Visit by @amitavakumar is.gd/lkUOar

How can anyone that wants to make good, original, serious cinema ever let Harris compose for his film? #GenuineQuestion

The education of a bomb dog. smithsonianmag.com/ideas-innovati…

How the government killed a secure email company. m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/e…

Nabokov wanted 'pure clouds, melting colors and no girls' for Lolita's cover. feedly.com/k/12JkJwl

Cool that Anonymouth can do what it does without hurting (human) comprehension.

Using Anonymouth - a tool that helped 'out' Rowling - on passages from the Great Gatsby. newrepublic.com/article/114112…

"Food for thought: what's young India reading, and why? - Hindustan Times" feedly.com/k/1blHMh1

Can vouch for about 10 of these. The 25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers: feedly.com/k/13AzdgN

The literary popularity of cities. feedly.com/k/1cljsjq

Yet another Oppenheimer book, but this one focuses on his science. @nybooks nybooks.com/articles/archi…

Brilliant @wrightthompson story about soccer hooligans in Italy. espn.go.com/espn/feature/s…" (via @SpiceBoxofEarth )

Long, occasionally disturbing and always entertaining: The serial killer has second thoughts. gq.com/news-politics/…

Very cool. @venkatananth: Indian states re-imagined as countries per population. - bostinno.streetwise.co/2011/09/28/map…"

Profile of Murakami-translator @PhilipGabriel1 @australian theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/th… (via @MAOrthofer)

Not reading this one. "The book that'll make you never want to drink again." m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/b…

REMADE IN TAIWAN: Manny Ramirez's Season Abroad buzzfeed.com/samgf/remade-i…

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi in the 'global literary spotlight'. complete-review.com/saloon/archive…

"Abandonment issue: when do you give up on a book?" guardian.co.uk/books/booksblo…

"The Elegant Variation: First Trailer for Banville's "The Sea". marksarvas.blogs.com/elegvar/2013/0…

Based on his brother's last request, Seth Collins has been touring the country giving $500 tips to servers. npr.org/templates/stor…

"Why I became a Chinese shadow banker" bloomberg.com/news/2013-07-0…

The Delhi Belly screenwriter on how the movie almost didn't happen (and how it did). Awesome, awesome read. tehelka.com/shit-happens-o…

SkyMall: The Strange Story of America's Most Delightfully Weird Catalogue theatlantic.com/business/archi…

Man committed to psych ward for 7 years for fabricating money laundering claims may have been telling the truth. m.guardiannews.com/world/2012/nov…

And here's Jhumpa Lahiri talking about her short story in the New Yorker. nyr.kr/11WX4Y4

Why do some books give you a hangover? bit.ly/18MBupo

Annie Proulx on her short story 'Rough Deeds' nyr.kr/11WWeus

Romney's White House plans. (Or why the WH is a holding company) (Or another reason to be glad you voted for Obama) bit.ly/15uTeEB

Leaked British Front Pages Reveal The Need for a New 'Dr. Who' bit.ly/11MlVxG

While on spy stories, here's another one: How British intelligence infiltrated the IRA theatlantic.com/magazine/archi… (via @TheByliner )

(1999) The Stasi and the Swan. A @DavidGrann classic from TNR. newrepublic.com/article/politi… (via @prempanicker )

Austerity, the history. (Or, why is Europe so messed up). newyorker.com/online/blogs/j…

"Literary happiness is to be found in a fictional pig" guardian.co.uk/books/booksblo…

The LARB will not publish negative reviews of first books. bit.ly/18CmRaG

Why Wooden Toys? nyr.kr/18DI0ic

“And Now a Word from Our sponsors" Classic book ads from the NYRB. bit.ly/18CmwER

George RR Martin fans can expect more Ice and Fire in 2014 bit.ly/14a1kzd

"It was the day my grandmother exploded" and other great opening lines. telegraph.co.uk/culture/cultur… (via @spacedout_sniff )

Jack Vance dies at 96, master of bold and bizarre science fiction. guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may…

Unpaid internships and a culture of privilege are ruining journalism (via @sunetrac)
m.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/…

Softbank and Sprint will remove Huawei equipment; win national security clearance for deal. dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/sof…

Yahoo's $800 Million Bid for Hulu: Safe, Boring, and Brilliant: theatlantic.com/business/archi…

The Guardian rounds up #Cannes. bit.ly/12aC4hS (via @harikunzru )

The Curse of Reading and Forgetting nyr.kr/1690hqf

John Banville annotates The Sea. bit.ly/13TpVIt

Which five authors are in running for the 2013 Nobel prize? bit.ly/Z73ukL

If you’re reading to find friends, you’re in deep trouble. m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/b…

Cormac McCarthy's The Road May Have the Scariest Passage in All of Literature. theatlantic.com/entertainment/…

Wickedly funny Dan Brown critique from the Telegraph. telegraph.co.uk/culture/100494…

Why We Took Cocaine Out of Soda.
m.theatlantic.com/health/archive…

Indian site plagiarizes blog posts then files DMCA takedown on originals

arstechnica.com/science/2013/0…

The Guardian talks Saul Bellow's Something to Remember Me By as part of its Darkness in Lit series. guardian.co.uk/books/booksblo…

The best crap book covers. guardian.co.uk/books/booksblo…

"The finest piece of sportswriting on record" - Richard Ben Cramer on Ted Williams. esquire.com/print-this/bio…

From 2010, a lovely Ben Smith tribute to Richard Ben Cramer's book. He died today. dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm…

The spectacular thefts of Apollo Robbins. newyorker.com/reporting/2013…

Decades later, Joe Sappell tries to investigate what happened to him after he wrote about Scientology. lamag.com/features/2012/…

In Search of the Guns & Freedom Unicorn. bit.ly/R1PTII

I am Adam Lanza’s mother. I am Dylan Klebold’s and Eric Harris’s mother. I am James Holmes’s mother.

huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012…

Link to the short story (?????????? ????) on which Bala's Paradesi is based. nanjilnadan.com/2010/10/27/%E0… (via @equanimus - thanks!)

Guns extend the reach of violence, and, with our national silence on senseless gun laws, so do we. newyorker.com/online/blogs/c… #newtown

Remnick:What is needed is gun control that puts public safety before deer hunting. newyorker.com/online/blogs/n… #newtown

The Adventures of the Real Tom Sawyer. http://t.co/SCDfwvYY

Can John Banville resuscitate Philip Marlowe? http://t.co/vpn2q1LH

The Real Ryan Record: 2 Minor Bills, Lots of High-Profile Talk, Gridlock http://t.co/X3q6UpRc

Are Liberals Being Unfair to Paul Ryan? No. http://t.co/UrPqsRUl

Doctors wanted to switch him off life-support – but he could hear every word but could not tell them he was alive. http://t.co/64eMOcdp

Whatever happened to kids' chemistry sets? http://t.co/yMgUhPe4

http://t.co/FxKgbcfS Is Algebra necessary?

How To Write Erotica http://t.co/af04qvLu

Semicolons: A Love Story - http://t.co/tMQoGl9l http://t.co/SeqV8QR0

Happy birthday, Carolyn Keene! http://t.co/5XITgtNm

The Impaler: Being Tortured By Roger Federer http://t.co/UTfz4qIU

Gold-hatted Gatsby, Trimalchio & The High-bouncing Lover. Alternate titles Fitzgerald proposed for the Great Gatsby. http://t.co/oAjn40tU

You’re reading a novel. “What’s it about?” somebody asks. What do you say? http://t.co/TZXXFm60

LIBOR - crime of the century. http://t.co/huuWeb8C

Higgs boson primer: http://t.co/zThp8BI9