
Zora Neale Hurston, 1938. Photographer: Carl Van Vechten.
A cultural news roundup.
RIP, John Christopher. Brighten your day! The world’s most beautiful bookstores. Book (review) clubs. The Rings of Saturn, coming to a theater near you. Their Eyes Were Watching God, coming to a radio near you. Amazon.com, coming to a store near you? R. Crumb (among others) turns the Western canon into graphic novels. David Foster Wallace’s keeper shelf.Mona Lisa’s double.Pirates of Lexicon Valley. Bloomsbury Group antics: expensive. “If you come, so what? If you don’t come, so what? Will Turkey lose prestige?” Auster v. Erdogan.The museum of human gullibility.“12 Globe-Shaped Foods. Top 10 Famous Buses. 40 Culturally Relevant Birds. 13 High-Tech Steampunk USB Flash Drives.” Why we like lists.