sunday short stack

"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house." - Henry Ward Beecher

• "Money Walks" is an experiment in serial storytelling at the LA Times, featuring Cecil Castellucci, Tod Goldberg, and Laila Lalami, among others.
• Joyce Carol Oates fields some questions.
• Nerve suggests the forty sexiest frontwomen in rock history.
• Time offers the top ten worst first pitches.
• Noise Addicts posts thirty of the most controversial album covers.
• isbndb.com hopes to be the IMDB of books. (via @drmabuse)
• Fiona Apple has a new track on the EP Then Was Then And Now Is Now - A Tribute To Cy Coleman.
• Score! 20 Years of Merge Records: The Covers! is finally out.
• James Joyce once wrote a children's book titled The Cat and the Devil.
• I fear zombies have jumped the shark, so perhaps it's apropos that today will be our last weekly zombie link: Woody Harrelson is under attack by zombies.