sunday short stack

"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it."
- Truman Capote

• And the winner of the Tournament of Books is Toni Morrison's A Mercy.
• Monkee fun with "Daydream Believer": The Literal Version
• Tom Leonard stalks J.D. Salinger for The Spectator. (via @sarahw)
• Now you can extend your job search to Twitter.
• In the Nicotine (1961): A shrewish wife commits her smoking obsessed husband to an institution. Hilarity ensues. (via @jimgroom)
• Mike Watt on Walt Whitman
• April 18 is Record Store Day. I think this is the day I should finally check out Vacation Vinyl and/or Origami Vinyl. And you know, buy a turntable.
  
• What the people of Seattle know, according to John Hodgman.
• Just in case you're one of the few who haven't seen the Bruno trailer (nsfw).
• When T.S. Eliot rejected Animal Farm
• And for our zombie link of the week, Carolyn Kellogg profiles Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance - Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem!