RIP Elmore Leonard. Your masalas never failed to…

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

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