sunday short stack

"For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes." - Dag Hammarskjold

• Orhan Pamuk, Kazuo Ishiguro, Kate Christensen, and Margaret Atwood - among other luminaries - explain how to write a great novel.
• Make Your Own Academic Sentence
• New York magazine thinks these 40 songs define "the Brooklyn sound."
• Jacket Copy reprints the 1958 LA Times review of Lolita.
• Martin Scorcese joins me in thinking The Shining is superlatively scary, but he also nominates 10 other scariest horror movies of all time, skewing classic.
• I've started following Roger Ebert on Twitter (@ebertchicago) and he's got the good links, including the one above, Famous Authors Narrate the Funny Pages, the world's worst jobs, and a cookbook written by Nelson Algren.
• Also always great for links, birthday boy @largeheartedboy: the 50 most despicable Oscar snubs of the 2000s and the craziest international bootleg superheroes.
• And for complete and utter listmania, check out Paste's Best of the Decade lists, with everything from breweries to fashion designers.