Slate on the new Jeffrey Eugenides novel, The Marriage Plot.  Vol. 1 on Jeffrey Eugenides: the dude really knows how to rock a vest.

• If you like pictures of stacks of books from the offices of various media companies, BuzzFeed has got the post for you.

• Jonathan Franzen, P.J. O’Rourke, and others discussed Occupy Wall Street with Bill Maher this past weekend.

• Jennifer Gilmore interviews Elissa Schappell over at The Rumpus.

• Thanks to WFMU for leading us to Hans Richter’s 1946 film Dreams That Money Can Buy, featuring a soundtrack with original compositions by John Cage, Paul Bowles and Darius Milhaud.