sunday short stack

“Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers are not with their first choice. That's what makes the jukebox play.” - Willie Nelson

• Aquarium Drunkard has mp3s of an episode of KPFK's Folkscene featuring Tom Waits (1974).
• The oldest English words have been identified.
• BookTour is a website covering...wait for it...book tours (via @condalmo).
• The longlist for the Foreign Fiction Prize has been announced.
• "The Unemployment Line: It's Not Just for Philosophy Majors Anymore"
• The New Yorker this week has previously unpublished David Foster Wallace, "Wiggle Room." It's an excerpt from his unfinished novel The Pale King.
• SAT Scores vs. Music You Listen To (via @WFMU)
• In honor of the upcoming release of Cecil Castellucci's Beige, Carolyn Kellogg lists 10 essential punk songs.
• This site is going to be my ruin.
• Norman Mailer vs. Everyone
• And for this week's requisite zombie link: Zombie Combat Club