Readings

| | Kevin Martini
Ludacris as a Lion: Behind the Fanfiction Curtain

Twitter account @Fanfiction_TXT finds the best/funniest fanfiction on the Internet.

Book Two: Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca

On Gothic mansions, secrets, death, and exes. The second in a series of personal essays about reading.

| Trillin on Paul Ryan: "Started out as this Golden Boy who also is comfortable with fellow human beings, unlike Romney."
Checking in with Calvin Trillin, Part 2

The second part in a series of chats with Calvin Trillin, the man who—among many other things—casts the U.S. presidential campaign in iambic pentameter. Discussed: the Republican and Democratic Conventions, how Barry Goldwater would be to the left of today's GOP, Tom Lehrer, satire on television, and what's so good about The Daily Show.