Damn, there is a great piece on growing up, music and literary obsessions, and becoming a writer by Jonathen Lethem in this week's New Yorker, but it's not offered online. Catch it if you can. If you go to the library, check for a New Yorker story from a few weeks ago on Hayao Miyazaki, the maker of great Japanese animanted films such as Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away, and My Neighbor Totoro.

And, holy shite, look what one can find without even trying: Jonathen Lethem on the book "Dylan's Vision of Sin". I haven't read it yet (I just found it), but it's gotta be worthwhile to The River readers. We can thank the person who did this site