sunday short stack

"Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time." - Steven Wright

• Even though the year still has a good six weeks to turn itself around (and has already begun to do so), Publisher's Weekly lists its best books of the year.
• You never know when.
• Don't miss your comic book bondage cover of the day (via The Nonist).
• Barbara Ehrenreich looks at the effect Tuesday's election had on the minimum wage nationwide.
• The endings of 10 famous novels you always meant to read but never got around to.
• The AV Club charts 6 Memorable Books about Writers Writing.
• This is the kind of thing that could keep me from productive pursuits for days: Make a ringtone from any mp3.
• Will Self in the land of gay polygamous Mormons.
• Maud Newton interviews Zoe Heller about Notes on a Scandal.

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