Afternoon Bites: Ursula K. Le Guin, Rev. Nørb and Nick Fury, Amis and Larkin, and More

Happy 90th birthday, Stan Lee.

SPIN on Wayne Coyne’s very strange 2012.

At the London Review of Books, Christopher Tayler reviews Richard Bradford’s The Odd Couple: The Curious Friendship between Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin.

Mike Faloon on Rev. Nørb’s book and Nick Fury’s eyepatch.

Young Money Poetry, taking place on 12/30 at Microscope Gallery, looks like a fine reading.

Our own Tobias Carroll looks at two new collections of Ursula K. Le Guin’s short fiction.

Zach Barocas (Bells≥/Jawbox/The Cultural Society) on Flannery O’Connor (and much more).

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