A way of becoming very drunk while stocktaking your bookshop’s science-fiction section (via).
A collector’s guide to true crime, including an unexpected connection between Dennis Nilsen and Virginia Woolf.
A celebration of the typographic specimen book that is rather lovely to look at.
An easy way into Jean Rhys – at least, easy if you know sufficient French.
A vintage television interview with Joan Didion, elegantly glossed.
A book-promotion technique based on photographs of cute dogs reading.
An erudite discussion on the right Nordic crime to choose if you really, really didn’t like Stieg Larsson.
The first instance of the word ‘fart’ in the New Yorker (during a review of ‘Dumb and Dumber’, 1995) and many similar citations of a significantly less safe-for-work sort. (The Guardian, you might like to know, currently has its first use of the ‘f’ word displayed on an office wall at several times original size, as part of this
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