• Oscar Villalon raises interesting questions about the lines between fiction and nonfiction.
• Annalee Newitz reviews Optic Nerve #11.
• Megan points to a vanity press scamming bookstores. There’s more info here. Avoid Author Identity Press at all costs.
• Why does the media consistently ignore the Midwest? (via Isak)
• The college prank as viral video.
• Eric Klinenberg has additional ideas about what’s killing newspapers. And it ain’t the Internet.
• David Yezzi on Kingsley Amis’s poetry.
• A lost interview with Douglas Adams.
• Bill Benzon compares the Gabler and Barrier Walt Disney bios.
• Cinetrix needs your help IDing a film.
• The Norwegians mock the Danish language. (via Language Hat)
• There’s some new software available that will allow you to see fellow humans as animals do.
• The Daylight Savings Time change had no impact on power consumption. Way to go, team!

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