Highsmith: A Romance of the 1950s. William at Hang Fire Books has a great review of the new book about the romance between writers Patricia Highsmith and Marjorie Meaker. Looks like something to pick up.

Growing Sentences with David Foster Wallace. OR: How to write like DFW in ten easy steps.

My dad wrote 1984…. George Orwell’s adopted son on his father and his father’s parenting.