sunday short stack

"She had yet to learn how often intimacies between women go backwards, beginning with revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem." - Elizabeth Bowen

• Witness the minstrel version of The Outsiders as bait for Stanley Kubrick.
• LAist has a nice photo essay of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels downtown.
• Five designers took a shot at book covers for Dostoyevsky, Lawrence, Bovary, and Fitzgerald to celebrate Penguin Classics' 60th anniversary (via Campaign for the American Reader).
• Two from Ed Champion: Complete this quiz to determine your literary personality and discover the 101 most influential people who never lived.
• I can't decide which of these books would be the most fun. I'm leaning toward Buffy (via TEV).
• Lou Barlow remembers Elliott Smith (via Pinky's Paperhaus).
• There are 1001 books you must read before you die. I have 809 left to go.
• Henry Louis Gates Jr. reflects on Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Encyclopedia of Popular Music editor Colin Larkin's all-time worst albums. Poor Annette can't get a break.
  
• EyeSawIt is an "eyewitness reporting database" where you can report celebrity sightings, lost pets, or possible kidnappings.