Some weeks all one is capable of, blog-wise, as Jack Lemmon would say, is short, be-linked bursts. This is one of those weeks, my friend.

A beautiful design for a New Yorker party.

Goody! Jesse Thorn at The Sound of Young America—the eerily gifted young radio host who’s been taking WNYC by storm—has interviewed George Saunders again.

Marisa Acocella Marchetto interviewed. Have you read her book Cancer Vixen yet? It’s astonishingly powerful, and funny, too.

Who will save the Saul Steinberg boat mural? I repeat: who?

Some wonderful old-cartoon tidbits, courtesy of Mike Lynch.

If you’re still bobbing for Dylans after I’m Not There, dig Theme Time Radio Hour, the best show anywhere. Thanks, Bill, for this WaPo story about the sandpaper-smooth DJ with a nose for goofy trivia and a weakness for women’s names.

Is text-messaging the solution for administrations dealing with crises like the one at Virginia Tech? It might be.

Just because, the His Girl Friday screenplay.

“Interesting mention of TNY’s fiction,” writes Carolita, and she’s right.

Speaking of writers for the magazine, I reviewed Paul Hoffman’s new book about lives spent puzzling out heady and confounding strategies in chess games and in families (for Newsday); it’s called King’s Gambit: A Son, a Father, and the World’s Most Dangerous Game.