sunday short stack

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. - Simone de Beauvoir

• Tom Waits is crazy about Missy Elliott.
• Marianne Wiggins complains about her tenure as a National Book Award judge.
• Louis Menand reviews Thomas Pynchon and a New York forensic artist ages him.
• In California, it's all written on the floor.
• The Nonist reintroduces calligrapher Hella Basu.
• What kind of reader are you?
• The New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2006, The New York Times 10 Best Books of 2006, and various other accolades:
• The New York Times best of the boxed sets
• The Whitbread/Costa shortlist
• The Guardian writer and critic picks for 2006
• The Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award
• The Top 40 Bands in America
• The Top 40 American Artists Working Today
• The Sexiest Man Living! (now we're talkin')