The 2010 National Book Critics Circle winners were announced Thursday night. Jennifer Egan’s (above) A Visit from the Goon Squad beat out Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom and Paul Murray’s Skippy Dies to win the fiction category.  The autobiography prize went to Darin Strauss for Half a Life. You can read about the rest of the winners here.

• Remember that profile Gary Shteyngart wrote about M.I.A. that we think read like a Gary Shteyngart novella? He got paid a whole lot of money to write that.

• Salman Rushdie to write a TV show.

• The BBC gets really NYTesque.  Takes a look at what exactly is a “bohemian.”

• Marc Maron talks to the Wall Street Journal.

• Taking a look back at the career of Tom Waits.