sunday short stack

“Humor is what happens when we’re told the truth quicker and more directly than we’re used to.” - George Saunders

• Nick Cave joins nine other writers on the Literary Review's bad sex in fiction award.
• Limone!
• LA Weekly's Top Ten List of Major Stars Covering Other People's Music
• 1000 Awesome Things
• McSweeney's offers standards for grading the life of an adjunct composition professor.
• Three Guys One Book is just what it says.
• The 25 Greatest Coens Movie Moments
• I wish I had been at this Jesus Lizard show.
• Top 10 Bad Messages from Good Movies
• From Neatorama, 13 Examples of Literature in Song and from Flavorwire, Writers Who Sing, Singers Who Write
• Check out Google Image Swirl.
• NYC's Best New Buildings of the Decade
• Jack White and Wanda Jackson are going to make an album together!
• I never got around to posting this when it came out, but behold: the four-part Paste feature, "Glory Days: Dispatches From an Academic Conference on Bruce Springsteen."