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  1. @melvillehouse That video is Weird Al's apotheosis.
  2. The National Negro Committee -which would a year later become the NAACP -was founded this day in 1909. bit.ly/NpcSbK
  3. Graeme Wood (@gcaw) on Theroux's The Lower River: a remembered paradise revisited, with ugly results bit.ly/N3weWj
  4. MT @makinglight: New on Making Light: The return of the evil spelling test bit.ly/N3w1Ck Your morning is now destroyed.
  5. RT @JacobinCalendar: Bonjour! Today is Acacia day in the Meadow month of the 220th year! /"This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land."
  6. @DavidCWinters No higher compliment, I think. @levistahl
  7. It's not only Whitman's birthday, but British writer-adventurer Paul Fleming's bit.ly/L1f3Qf
  8. Stevenson and Henry James beat up entertaingly on Thomas Hardy at @levistahl 's joint bit.ly/KflAfb
  9. @levistahl @ThaRealEdPark (@poissel on A Naked Singularity is actually in the BN Review, not book clubs -- but thanks for the tweet!)
  10. The legacy of DF Wallace in Sergio De La Pava's (originally self-pubbed) ambitious tragicomedy A Naked Singularity bit.ly/KfhC6b
  11. MT @torbooks Frederik Pohl writing about Gene Wolfe: bit.ly/NfusPh #authorandsnackinnovator
  12. Boris Pasternak died this day in 1960; within 6 months his longtime mistress was sent to Siberia: bit.ly/KcyUkj
  13. "Shafts of blistering irony" punctuate Mohammed Hanif's fictional portrait of a Karachi hospital bit.ly/LBODEk
  14. MT @theLiteraryMan: Once & Future King 1 of those awesome books that turns kids into life-long readers./"Ill-Made Knight"s opening slays me