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RT 10 literary dishes and their real-life recipes, from our friends at

Ten Of Our Favorite Foods From Literature That You Can Actually Make Yourself For those that love words and those that love food, the combination is heaven. I first learned how literary food could make my mouth water and tongue slurp like Wile E. Coyote through Dr. Seuss. Green Eggs and Ham, man.

The Bookstore Brain: How Bookstores Choose Their Books via

The Bookstore Brain: How Bookstores Choose Their Books Bookstores are in essence personal libraries. In this way, they are macrocosms of the books they contain—there is life inside them.

The Making of Cloud Atlas via

Exclusive Video: The Making of 'Cloud Atlas' It's not easy to imagine how a book like Cloud Atlas, the 2004 novel by David Mitchell, could become the Cloud Atlas movie, written and directed by Tom Tykwer and the Matrix-creating Wachowski siblings.

Finnegans Wake: An Illustrated Panorama via

Finnegans Wake: An Illustrated Panorama I wanted to illustrate something impossible, so I chose Finnegans Wake. It would be silly for me to draw in a few panels a work that took James Joyce seventeen years to complete. So I cheated.

October 23 at FIT: 'A Conversation on the State of the Economy'

Eudora Welty, age 23, applies for a job at the New Yorker via

Letters of Note: How I would like to work for you! Fascinating letters. Interesting correspondence.

"My head looks like an uncooked ham with glasses." Q&A w/Chris Ware via

Q&A: Chris Ware 'What is my most treasured possession? Eyes'

The Tucci Cookbook http://bit.ly/OYpFHn What's yours?

Tucci Cookbook There is some truth to the old adage “Most of the world eats to live, but Italians live to eat.” What is it about a good Italian supper that feels like home, no matter where you’re from?

Raise a Glass to Kingsley Amis at tomorrow with via

Raise a Glass to Kingsley: A Celebration of Kingsley Amis with NYRB Classics & Vol. 1 Brooklyn Celebrate Kingsley Amis with Rosie Schaap, Maud Newton, Parul Sehgal and cocktails provided by Brooklyn Gin.

Ray Bradbury's 'The Book And The Butterfly'

When Ray Bradbury Fell In Love With Books Excerpted from The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012. Introduction © 2012 by Ray Bradbury, Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Gary Panter's Drawing Tips via

Gary Panter's Drawing Tips One of UNBORED‘s favorite artists of all time is Gary Panter who became well-known in the 1970s as one of the first New Wave cartoonists (with his post-apocalyptic comic JIMBO) and graphic designers, and who went on to win 3 Emmy Awards for his Pee-Wee’s Playhouse set design.