Val Kilmer tweeted a picture of himself as Mark Twain.

“Sometimes the book began to feel like a history of overeating in America. But there were other moments when the food was nothing more than what Edie put in her mouth.” – Jami Attenberg at the Wall Street Journal.

Deborah Solomon reviews  a new biography on Saul Steinberg.

Flavorwire has a list of Victorian novels that would make great television shows.

 Maria Bussmann talks to Hyperallergic about her show, Drawings Dedicated to Hannah Arendt, on display at  NYU’s Deutsches Haus .

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