sunday short stack

"Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was." - Margaret Mitchell

• Consult this guide to books you should read before the movies come out. (Do NOT see The Road without reading the book first.)
• Nobody understands Emo Bun.
• The New York Review of Books special fiction issue features work from J.M. Coetzee and Michael Chabon, among many others.
• Look at this fucking hipster.
• New York magazine has twelve writers on their most memorable summer flings.
• Animals like drugs, too.
• Betty LaVette sings "A Change Is Gonna Come" on The Late Late Show. (via @luxlotus)
• Top 10 Literary Ménages à Trois
• The dancing inmates of Cebu prison in the Philippines present their Michael Jackson tribute (now with nuns!)