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  1. @JulieKlam @nyrbclassics @TheBrowser @LRBPersonals @LaphamsQuart @johnroderick @katelaurielee #FF
  2. Wrapping up Letters Week with a great entry from van Gogh: http://bit.ly/6sJn5p
  3. Sorry, link fixed (I hope) -- http://bit.ly/7ixP6s
  4. Richard Wirick reviews the new biography of Raymond Carver: http://thesecondpass.com/?p=3870
  5. "Try to understand it by calling it a disease." A letter from Kafka to Milena Jesenská: http://bit.ly/8DfZZr
  6. Letters Week continues (hope everyone's enjoying it; I am) with E.B. White: http://thesecondpass.com/?p=3838
  7. Footage of Nabokov looking at various Lolita covers: http://thesecondpass.com/?p=3834
  8. RT @danielwcarlson: Coworker keeps asking what certain words mean. Do I tell her about dictionaries, or just ignore her?
  9. RT @bookbench: Our book club, headed by @macyhalford, is starting Lydia Davis's short stories today. We'll be blogging+tweeting about th ...
  10. Letters Week continues with John Cheever: http://thesecondpass.com/?p=3795
  11. "The boy is bothered." The blog's unofficial "Letters Week" kicks off with Raymond Chandler: http://thesecondpass.com/?p=3784
  12. All Hail Snail Mail: A review of Thomas Mallon's lovely book about letter-writing through the ages: http://thesecondpass.com/?p=3777
  13. His Sin, Her Soul: A survivor of childhood abuse explains why Lolita is one of her favorite books: http://thesecondpass.com/?p=3751
  14. @maudnewton Yes. And maybe a list of her favorite books is inscribed on my appendix. Miracle of nature.
  15. Trying to think of what's less useful to me than a list of Janet Maslin's favorite books of the year.
  16. God ventriloquists, a truly great book cover, and Bolano's last interview . . . in this week's Ether: http://thesecondpass.com/?p=3722
  17. Lauren Elkin writes a review about a novel about a movie about an ambushed poet: http://thesecondpass.com/?p=3703
  18. @readandbreathe Yes, the fourth season is incredible. I'm sad to say the fifth is considerably less so.
  19. “Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.” -P.J. O’Rourke
  20. In Thanksgiving spirit, just cherries, no pits: http://thesecondpass.com/?p=3698