· Is Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close merely "an overwrought update of [Beverly Cleary's] Dear Mr. Henshaw for the McSweeney s set"? [Editor & Punisher]
· Woody Allen endorses The Week! And since we strive to emulate Allen in almost every way, we do, too. We always read The Week when we're not reading bedtime stories to our wives. [BusinessWeek]
· William Powers is unimpressed that a blogger made it into the White House. Well, wait until a blogger is in a Levi's ad: then he'll be eating his damn heart out! [National Journal]
· Jann Wenner on his pal, Hunter S. Thompson. [RS]