Dusting off Google Reader

• Those familiar with Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five know of the horrors of Dresden
• A Brit weighs in on The New Granta Book of the American Short Story
• Just imagine if they spent that $27 million to help those in need rather than to construct animatronic dinos!
• Reporting from the front lines of a librarian conference
• When Michael Lewis writes something it is generally worth reading it
• Bookforum offers an array of environmentally minded articles
• "Farewell to Norman Mailer, a sexist, homophobic reactionary"
• Jeff Chang, author of Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation, offers a playlist
• Only having watched through season two, I was disappointed to learn about the fate of Stringer Bell in this recent New Yorker profile of David Simon, creator of The Wire. Even so, twas a good read.