Dante’s Inferno for the holidays?

It’s a William Burroughs Christmas!  (Thanks Maud Newton)

New York Shitty finds us a bummer of a Christmas story from the archives of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle.

Lit.

• PEN gives us their year in review.

• The Daily Beast writers pick their favorite books.

• An interview with Alan Moore over at Vice.

• Shit’s gettin’ mad Orwellian up in England.

• Huffington Post has a bunch of books they liked in 2009.

Film

• The 00’s were a pretty good time for the city of Chicago.  (Thanks Largehearted Boy)

• A.V. Club reviews Sherlock Holmes.

The interpretation veers sharply away from the tweedy expectations set by Basil Rathbone and others, but it’s as true in its own way to the source.